Faculty,

Whether you’ve never heard of the Honors Program or helped us start it decades ago, please take a few minutes and review some of our information and benefits for our students.

For Students:
If you have no interest in getting involved yourself, please share the student video and contact info with students and encourage them to learn more about it.

Student Videos:
Share this with your students or post it on Canvas:

Promo Video: https://youtu.be/MdpKY6atIKw
Info Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiywExXE56M
Email: honors@fullcoll.edu                          Website: https://honors.fullcoll.edu/

Faculty Involvement in Honors
The Honors Program is a faculty collaboration.  If you want to learn more about how the faculty can be involved, please watch this video for faculty:

Link: https://youtu.be/HvocWbDTIlU

Faculty Involvement

  • Coordinator
  • Senate Committee
  • Developing Honors Courses
  • Teaching Honors Courses
  • Counseling Students
  • Recommending Students
  • Encouraging Students to get involved

Honors Coordinator Jodi Balma
Honors Program Office Room 225
Coordinator Office Hours
Tuesdays 9:30 – 12:30 p.m.

Benefits of the Honors Program:
Smaller classes,dedicated faculty, campus leadership roles, high-impact learning, research opportunities, high rates of transfer to universities, membership in honor societies, and scholarship opportunities.

Joining Honors

  • 3.4 GPA High School or College GPA
  • Faculty Referral
  • Veterans and Returning Students
  • Dean’s List and President’s List Students

Honors Transfer Council of California Transfer Partnerships

  • Students completing our honors program as “honors certified” enjoy enhanced transfer consideration:
  • priority acceptance consideration, special scholarships, housing priority and a range of other academic and social benefits such as library privileges even before transfer.

Developing New Honors Courses

  • IGETC Courses
  • Major Prep

Scheduling Honors Courses
Most of our honors students transfer so offering classes that facilitate transfer is key.

  • Department Schedule
  • Past Schedules
  • Visit my office hours or schedule a time to meet

Honors Coursework

  • Seminar style classes
  • Deeper Discovery
  • Student Presentations
  • Research Papers
  • Embedded Library Instruction
  • Project Based Learning
  • Poster Presentations
  • Conference Applications

Academic Conferences for Student Presentations

UC, Irvine Honors Transfer Council of California
Western Regional Honors Council
Bay Area Consortium
National Collegiate Honors Council
Pacific Coast Undergraduate Mathematics Conference
Discipline Specific Conferences

Honors Certification (completing the program)

  • Complete at least 15 Honors units.
  • Have a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.40 in honors and non-honors sections

Honors STEM Track Certification (completing the program)

  • Complete at least 9 Honors units.
  • Complete at least 6 units of approved STEM coursework
  • Complete Extra STEM Activities
  • Have a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.40 in honors and non-honors sections

Honors Counselors

  • Citlally Santana
  • Ana Tovar
  • STEM Counselor Jon Michael Hattabaugh

Honors Program

  • Develop Honors Coursework
  • Teach Honors Courses
  • Subscribe to “This Week in Honors” newsletter
  • Talk to students about the Honors Program
  • Add a page on Campus Resources to Canvas
  • Refer students to us directly