Honors Program

The BCC Honors Program is:

 • A learning community designed to accommodate the special needs of academically gifted students.

 • A program of courses allowing highly motivated, intellectually curious students to become partners in learning with their professors and classmates.

• An opportunity to enjoy an environment of scholarly inquiry, creative interaction and intellectual stimulation.

It’s Flexible: Students may participate as an Honors Student, seeking an official Honors Diploma, or as an Honors Affiliate, which includes access to honors classes and program benefits. Students may change from one option the other until one semester before graduation.

Goals include developing the student's:

• Self-reflection, passion for learning and ability to reason

• Ability to express themselves in speech and writing appropriate for group discourse, while remaining authentic to the student’s individuality

• Appreciation of the common humanity of all people and gratitude for differences

• Ability to collaborate and work independently

• Capacity to commit to a position, recognize that it may change, and tolerate uncertainty and ambiguity

• Ability to integrate and contextualize information