Scholarship
IT’S NOT MORE WORK; IT’S DIFFERENT WORK
Scholarship seems like an obvious pillar of any Honors College, but at Longwood, we think about Honors academics a bit differently. Being a Cormier Honors College student does not mean that you will just be taking extra classes or be receiving extra assignments. The motto of the CHC is that “It’s not more work; it’s different work.” For example, with one of my Honors history classes, I knocked out a General Education goal by taking a class that did not use a traditional textbook; instead, we learned how real historians study history by using primary sources such as paintings, journal entries, political documents, letters, etc.
The Honors College is more than supportive of its students. I am constantly offered unique educational opportunities. So many, in fact, that there is no way I could participate in everything that has been presented to me! With Honors, education goes beyond the classroom. In my first year alone, I participated in team building activities at a ropes course, I was invited to a dinner with Longwood’s Board of Visitors, I went on several field trips with my Honors classmates to delve deeper into our course material, I was elected president of the Honors Student Association (HSA), and the executive board of HSA, of which I am a member, had a proposal accepted so that we will present at an idea exchange at the National Collegiate Honors Conference in Seattle this October 2016.
The CHC understands that great personal growth can come out of experiences that foster academic growth and provides its students with as many opportunities to engage in these types of experiences as possible! I have never in my life felt like I honestly could do anything, but now as a Cormier Honors student, I really believe that the academic possibilities for me are practically endless.
