Academic Support Programs

Honors
Contract
An Honors contract allows students and faculty to collaborate towards creating opportunities for the student to dive deeper into the course subject matter through intellectually creative components that will be completed alongside existing course requirements.
Students get the opportunity to:
- Work closely with dedicated and passionate faculty
- Gain leadership, independence, and other crucial skills to increase comfort and success in 4-year and/or professional environments
- Use their Honors projects for submission to undergraduate conferences
- Have Honors credit noted on their transcript
Faculty get the opportunity to:
- Work closely with dedicated and passionate students
- Share their knowledge and experience beyond the course outline and objectives
- Act as a mentor that nurtures and inspires our future scholars
- Be part of our Honors community where we honor ourselves and our community through collaboration, curiosity, and creativity toward imagining a future we have yet to create.
***Important note: Contracts are now submitted through the web portal. See information
below for new steps and links to instructions***
the fall Deadline for submitting the completed contract is: Friday, October 14, 2022
STEP 1: Select the course that you want to convert into an Honors class and let your professor know you are interested in collaborating with them to turn their class into an Honors class.
You can turn almost ANY class into an Honors class through an honors contract including
classes that are fully online, partially online, and short-term. (Exceptions: course numbers below 100, chemistry course number below 200, course units
below 3, and summer courses).
STEP 2: Your professor agrees to work with you, so they invite you to join Honors through their SDCCD faculty dashboard (share the video tutorial below with your professor. It tells them how to invite students to Honors).
Click here for print step by step instructions on how to invite students to apply for Honors.
Note: Be prepared to explain why you are interested in pursuing additional study in this course. If your professor is willing to create a contract with you, think about scheduling an appointment with them to discuss the components of your Honors contract (i.e., Between 3 - 5 additional Honors assignments).
STEP 3: You will receive an email that lets you know that your professor has invited you to honors. You can then go to your SDCCD student dashboard and apply for honors using the drop down menu that appears when you right click on the course number. Click here for step by step instructions on how to apply for Honors.
STEP 4: Click submit on the bottom of the page. You should receive another email confirming/notifying
you that your contract is submitted. There is nothing more for you to do, other than
to successfully complete the course and honors requirements. There is nothing more
for your professor to do, other than submit the Honors syllabus you both designed
together. They can send that syllabus to mesahonors@sdccd.edu.
HONORS COURSE VS. HONORS CONTRACT
Honors courses are offered each semester in a variety of subject areas. They are listed in the Online Schedule of Classes (type "Honors" in the keyword search).
Honors courses vary according to discipline, but all increase the range and depth of the learning experience by stimulating strong critical thinking skills, generating lively discussion, facilitating student collaboration, and teaching advanced research and writing skills.
Click on a link below to view sample honors contracts/syllabi.
- Accounting 116A Syllabus
- Accounting 116B Syllabus
- Anthropology 102 Syllabus
- Anthropology 103 Syllabus
- Architecture 180 Syllabus
- Art 107 Syllabus
- Art 230 Syllabus
- Art History Syllabus
- Art 155A Syllabus
- Astronomy 101 Syllabus
- Biology 107 Syllabus
- Italian 101 Syllabus
- Japanese 201 Syllabus
- Math 104 Syllabus
- Math 255 Syllabus
- Music 258B Syllabus
- Philosophy 205 Syllabus
- Physical Science 100 Syllabus
- Political Science 103 Syllabus
- Psychology 101 Syllabus
- Psychology 101 Syllabus
- Psychology 155 Syllabus
- Psychology 211 Syllabus
- Psychology 230 Syllabus
- Sociology 101 Syllabus
- Sociology 110 Syllabus
- Spanish 102 Syllabus
- Spanish 201 Syllabus
- Speech 103 Syllabus
- ACCT Fusco, John
- ACCT Lincoln, Judy
- ANTH Hinkes, Madeleine
- ANTH Geyer, Patrick
- ANTH Guenther, Corinna
- ANTH Martin, Christine
- ANTH Sime, Jennifer
- ANTH Valdos, Yanina
- ARCH Abe, Valerie
- ARCH Barrett, Norman
- ARCH Fender, Rob
- ARCH Horsman, Larry
- ARCH Kay, Ian
- ARTF Adame, Angel
- ARTF Bermann-Enn, Beate
- ARTF Chavez, Patricio
- ARTF Laris, Georgia
- ARTF Moctezuma, Alessandra
- ARTF Rogers, Denise
- ARTF Wascher, Sandra
- ASTR Levy, Lorenza
- BIOL Detwiler, Paul
- BIOL Dwyer, Mary
- BIOL Koningsor, Robert
- BIOL Krown, Kevin
- BIOL Plagge, Timothy
- BIOL Tam, Tobey
- BLAS Ford, Theresa
- BLAS Mayasa, Thekima
- BUSE Adams, John
- BUSE Winston, A
- CACM Fitzgerald, Michael
- CHEM Budzynski, Donna
- CHEM Wang, Yanli
- CHIC Moctezuma, Alessandra
- CHIC Velez, Manuel
- CHIL Gibson, Lou Ann
- CHIN Dalton, Ran
- CHIN Shi, Shannon
- CISC Brown, Craig
- CISC Frankie, Tasha
- CISC Trinh, Viet
- COMS Brimo, Marilyn
- COMS Ferguson, Kyle
- COMS Hueneberg, Elizabeth
- COMS Ross, Mary
- COMS Wirig, Kimberlee
- CONF Lazear, Susan
- DRAM Ye, George
- ECON Abajian, Mark
- ECON Gordon, Robert
- ENGL Allred, Christie
- ENGL Barhoum, Sim
- ENGL Cost, Jennifer
- ENGL Dill, Bert
- ENGL Felix, Barbara
- ENGL Jacoby, Peter R.
- ENGL Pickford, Robert
- ENGL Safdie, Joe
- ENGL Smith, Wendy
- ENGL Sullivan, Chris
- ENGL Tucker, Michelle
- ENGL Williams, Jason
- ENGL Wing, Susan
- ENGL Zobell, Bonnie
- FREN Lucas, Isabelle
- FREN Ornelas, Uriel
- GEOG Rossiter, Jonathan
- GERM Wrasidlo, Barbara
- HEAL Barrington, Elizabeth
- HIST Bond, Robert
- HIST Cox, Keith
- HIST Heisser, Cecily
- HIST Jones, Juli
- HIST Miano, David
- HUMA Israel, Ron
- JAPN Baum, Nobu
- JAPN Dohr, Ayumi
- MATH Brown, Michael
- MATH Kuniyuki, Ken
- MATH Marquez, Francisco
- MATH Parsons, Michelle
- MATH Parvini, Shawn
- MATH Peters, William
- MATH Sandvick, Ron
- MATH Underhill, Bruce
- MUSI Ratelle, Daniel
- NUTR Chu, Elizabeth
- NUTR Clark, Katie
- NUTR DuPraw, Christine
- PERG Hedekin, Anne
- PERG Marrujo, Guillermo
- PHIL Duckles, Ian
- PHIL Furrow, Dwight
- PHIL Kuttnauer, M
- PHYN Gramada, Cezarina
- PHYS Siegel, Steven
- PHYS Wong, Seung Kai
- POLI Rodriguez, Michelle
- PSYC Beeman, Amy
- PSYC Black, Lisa
- PSYC Blake, Toni
- PSYC Correll, Espen
- PSYC Kaneko, Wendy
- PSYC Kanevsky, Inna
- PSYC MacKenzie, Laurie
- PSYC Markowitz, Karen
- PSYC Miyoshi, Dina
- PSYC Robinson, Jessica
- PSYC Scherer, Stephen
- PSYC Seldin, Fredric
- SOCO Kravatz, Tanya
- SOCO Lawton, J
- SOCO Navada, Marianne Ryan
- SPAN Lopez, Leticia
- SPAN Padilla-Barajas, Hannah
- SPAN Primoza, Alison
- SPAN Schoenbrun-Fernandez, Dora