National Collegiate Honors Council
Date of this Version
2010
Abstract
While the size of our honors college environment is almost always a positive, its smallness has decided disadvantages when it comes to the study of less popular foreign languages. Fewer students, fewer subject offerings, and the absence of multiple sections all have a negative impact on language programs. Shrinking budgets have not helped matters. Despite these disadvantages, the French program at Florida Atlantic University’s Harriet Wilkes Honors College has steadily grown from a total number of sixteen students in fall 2005 to forty students (more than 10% of the student population) in the fall semester of 2009. To achieve this outcome, Florida Atlantic University’s honors college employed effective strategies that could be successful in other disciplines within honors at other institutions.
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Published in Honors in Practice, Volume 6. Copyright 2010 National Collegiate Honors Council