GENERAL BEADLE HONORS PROGRAM
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From the Director
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Welcome to DSU’s General Beadle Honors Program. We’ve designed the Beadle Honors Program with one thing in mind: challenging already bright minds and helping them develop and sharpen the critical skills that they will use in any major and after graduation, whether that be in the job market, graduate school, law school or other post-graduate endeavors. We have purposely chosen to avoid creating the type of honors program that simply moves through material faster or includes lots more coursework. Rather, Honors courses in the GBH move past fundamental skills and approach material in innovative, often provocative ways. They include experiential learning opportunities and are taught by faculty who create and publish in their chosen fields. Oh, and if you take the honors science course, you’ll probably set the building on fire at least once.
Our students in the Beadle Honors Program represent the best that DSU has to offer and they represent the varied DSU experience. Honors students come from every College on campus, representing more than 60% of all majors on campus, 70% of our intercollegiate athletic teams, and from 11 different states. The honors program has over 120 students, from freshmen to seniors, and honors students take many of their classes together, forming close academic relationships and life-long friendships. Immersion into the honors program begins in Freshmen Seminar and the freshmen honors dorm, and continues through honors only-classes and senior-level research and creative projects involving one-on-one interaction with faculty that develop next-level skills before you graduate.
General Beadle Honors students
And the Beadle Honors Program also delivers quality experiential learning opportunities. Our freshmen-level honors classes regularly take trips to places like the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in Deadwood, SD; the World War I Museum in Kansas City, MO; and the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis, MN. And outside of class, honors students attend regional and national conferences where they interact with peers and faculty in presenting original research and creative productions.
Finally, the Beadle Honors Program delivers all of this for a value. We’ve organized requirements so that students can fulfill many of their general education requirements in the honors program, meaning that the Program won’t cost you more money. So, if you’re looking to get more than a degree out of college and really want an education, come see why the General Beadle Honors Program would be a good fit for you.
Kurt Kemper
Prof. of History and Director