Acting Director: Barbara M. Goff: Loree, Room 038, 932-9266 or 9162 (goff@aesop.rutgers.edu)
The Cook College General Honors Program is designed for highly
motivated and promising high school seniors who apply to Cook College.
Students who fulfill the admissions criteria are invited to the campus
to be interviewed by faculty and students who participate in the
four-year program. Students selected as Rutgers Presidential Scholars
who have applied to Cook College are also admitted to this program.
Successful candidates are typically notified in early April, prior to
the deadline for college decision. Several first-year students not in
the program, whose first-term performance is outstanding, may be
invited in January to join the program.
The program includes a
variety of social and academic activities throughout the year,
recommended by both faculty and students in the program. The academic
requirements of the program are as follows:
1. First Year:
In the first term, students are registered for an honors section
of Exposition and Argument and a 1-credit Readings in Biology course,
in addition to the courses they request. Students register for the
interdisciplinary honors seminar in the spring term. The honors
seminars are team-taught and integrate formal presentations by faculty
and students, reading, discussions, and individual and/or small group
research projects. The additional courses selected in the first year
will depend upon the curriculum in which the student intends to major.
Qualifying students also may be invited by departments to take
first-year honors courses.
2. Sophomore Year:
Each term, sophomores register for a 1-credit honors tutorial in
which they work with a faculty member on a small independent study
project that introduces them to research in their areas of interest. In
the spring, sophomores also register for the honors seminar.
3. Junior Year:
Students register for at least 3 credits of honors tutorial, an
independent study program in which each student works with one faculty
member. The remaining courses selected for the junior and senior years
are determined by the curriculum in which the student is enrolled.
4. Senior Year:
Each term students register for a 3- to 6-credit Honors Tutorial
(11:554:497,498) or the George H. Cook Scholars Program
(11:015:497,498).
In order to remain in the Cook College
General Honors Program and continue to receive the scholarship award
that accompanies participation, honors students must (1) enroll as
full-time undergraduates and (2) maintain a cumulative grade-point
average of 3.4 or better.
