Welcome to the spring semester! I hope winter break was relaxing and/or productive, depending on your goals! In Honors we were able to use the quieter time to create some new advising tools that we hope you’ll find useful in your work with students.
In our last ‘Honors Advisor Digest’ of the fall semester I mentioned that we’d be working on an Advisor Guide. The guide is now ready and available at a tab on our Honors Advising for Faculty and Staff website. We’ve brought together topics that we think would be useful for advisors and combined them into themed sign posts. If you click on the name of each sign post, you’ll be brought to a web page that shares all the information listed on the sign. At the bottom of the page are additional links that might also come in handy.
In addition, we’ve created a tool that will be very useful as your advisees delve into the requirements for earning University Honors Laureate (UHL). The distribution requirement is outlined at the top of the Honors Scholar and University Honors Laureate Planning Worksheet. The new Distribution Requirements: Course Lookup page provides an easy way for students and advisors to find out which distribution requirement an UConn course fulfills. All you have to do is type in a subject, the catalog number, and the semester and year, and a box will appear letting you know which distribution category the course fulfills and whether or not it fulfills the diversity and multiculturalism distribution category. For example, if I type in MATH 1152Q (don’t forget to add the Q or W) Spring 2019, I’ll find out that the course fulfills the STEM category but it does not fulfill the diversity and multiculturalism category. This is a quick and easy way to find out how a course can play a role in fulfilling one of the UHL requirements.
Our spring Honors advisor update sessions will be offered on February 27 from 10:00 to 11:00 am in MCHU 108 and March 5 from 2:30 to 3:30 pm in MCHU 110. Please fill out an RSVP form to let us know which session you plan to attend. I’ll share more information about the content of the sessions as the dates draw nearer.
Thank you again for all you do for our students!
For more information, contact: Jess Hoffmann at jessamy.hoffmann@uconn.edu