New Brunswick Faculty of Arts & Sciences

Douglass College

Program name and description:     Douglass College Scholars Program Honors Seminars. Eight or nine seminars are offered each year. Students take two seminars, usually in their first year (one each semester). Seminars span a variety of academic disciplines ranging from the natural sciences to social sciences to humanities and often are interdisciplinary in nature. Most involve student papers and, in some cases, oral presentations.

Course number (if applicable):  06: 090 :198,199        Credits:     3,3

Contact person:    Prof. Deirdre Kramer        Telephone:    932 9626    Ext.: 

Participants:   

Douglass Scholars, eligible for consideration on the basis of high school rank (90th percentile and above) plus SATs (combined score of 1270 or above), membership in the James Dickson Carr Scholarship program (African-American or Puerto Rican scholars), the Rutgers Academic Achievement Award , the Presidential Scholarship Program (a University-wide merit award program), or outstanding first-year-of-college GPA (3.80 or above). Scholars must be Douglass students and must maintain 3.00, 3.20, 3.40, and 3.40 or better GPAs in each of their 4 years in college, respectively. Scholars are required to take two of these seminars in their four years at Douglass, and most elect to take them in their first year; some postpone one to their sophomore (or, in rare cases, junior) year.

Student products:    

Term papers (in most cases); Oral presentations (in some cases); Exams (in some cases).

Edited 9/20/96