Campuswide Honors Program Our motto Veritas Via Vitae means “Truth is the way of life”.

1. Campuswide Honors Program Our motto Veritas Via Vitae means “Truth is the way of life”. That’s why we have: Honors Experience Day11 March ‘06

2. UC Irvine’s Campuswide Honors Program: The strengths of the best liberal arts colleges amidst the creativity of a leading research university. UC Irvine's Campuswide Honors Program (CHP) is a place where a select group of students and faculty comes together to instruct, challenge, and sustain one another. It is a community of scholars, one in which development of the mind goes hand-in-hand with the development of the whole person, one in which the students are filled with enthusiasm for learning, curiosity, maturity, and the courage to take intellectual risks. It is a place where the faculty, an extraordinary group of respected scientists, humanists, engineers, and artists are passionate about scholarly issues and are also dynamic, concerned teachers.

3. A Challenging and Rewarding Education • Specialized honors curriculum taught by faculty recognized for outstanding teaching and scholarship • Small, seminar style honors classes • Research or creative projects and internships with faculty • International study through Education Abroad Program • Honors academic advising and scholarship counseling • Campuswide Undergraduate Research Symposium • Honors study rooms in the library • Cultural and social events with faculty and peers • Honors notation on UCI transcript

4. The CHP Core Curriculum • Humanities Core Course Honors Sections • The Social Sciences and Social Ecology • The Natural Sciences • Senior Thesis and Research Opportunities • Other Honors Courses • Departmental and School Honors Programs

5. Humanities Core Course Associations/Dissociations: The Social Instinct and its Consequences

6. Prof. John Smith leads a section Prof.Gail Hart (left) is Director of Humanities Core

7. The Humanities Core Course Introduction to humanistic inquiry taught from three perspectives: philosophical, historical and cultural Lecture sections taught by outstanding faculty in the humanities Small honors discussion sections offer individual attention, assistance with building of writing and research skills

8. The Humanities Core Course Research Project “The skills you learn by completing this project are invaluable, even if you are a science or arts major. The ability to look at information in new ways is even applicable to organic chemistry. Perhaps the most rewarding aspect of the Humanities Core Course research project is not the outcome of your final submission, but the skills you gain by engaging in the research process.” Vicky Zhou- Biological Sciences and Drama student

9. Critical Issues in the Social Sciences (usually sophomore year) Team-taught by professors from Schools of Social Sciences and Social Ecology. Topics presented from perspectives of various social sciences disciplines: anthropology, cognitive sciences, economics, linguistics, political science, psychology, social ecology, and sociology. Sample topics include human vision; authority, (dis)obedience and human society; decisions and compromises and their rewards and penalties; human language and its disablement; and exotic societies (including our own). Satisfies Breadth Category III (social and behavioral sciences). Watt organized and ran the course, followed by Mann, and now Petracca.

10. Prof. Stanford muses and Prof. Barrett works brain. Knowledge is found by consulting “Eight Ball”?

11. The Idiom and Practice of Science (Generally taken third year) A year-long interdisciplinary science course which gives students an understanding of the role science plays in addressing socially significant problems. Students develop the ability to understand scientific models and to judge the content, merit, and limitations of many issues of science in the modern world. Emphasis is placed upon the development of analytical and writing skills. This course satisfies Breadth Category II (natural sciences) and is for students majoring outside the sciences and engineering. Many of this year’s class, at right, are helping host this honors information day!

12. This quarter we are studying the wave equation and its application to sound, light, earthquakes, and music. Some of these students from a previous year are helping host today also!

13. Faculty Inside the Classroom • About 45 faculty/year teach lower division honors courses in Biology, Computer Science, Humanities, Physical Sciences, Social Ecology, Social Sciences • Upper division honors classes exist in every major on campus. Faculty Outside the Classroom • Research or creative projects and senior thesis direction everywhere • Extracurricular social events such as annual camping retreat, weekly coffee hour, house programs

14. Nobel Prize winners have taught in the CHP Prof. F. Sherwood Rowland (Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1995) has taught in the Natural Sciences Core Course: The Idiom and Practice of Science

15. The Chancellors put some muscle into the program. On the left, previous Chancellor Cicerone at annual Battle of the Brains Trivia Bowl Contest. On right, our new Chancellor Drake will be a contestant next month!

16. Research/creative projects and the Senior Thesis Justin Lotfi (left) and Brian Hill (right) in lasers and biomedical research at the Beckman Laser Institute.

17. Marc Macaranas in Dance

18. “ I have never experienced such a level ofintellectual enthusiasm, inquisitiveness, eagerness to obtain further training and esprit de corps among any group of undergraduates.” Barry Komisaruk, Ph.D. National Institutes of Health

19. Happy Honors Practitioners Left to right: Susan Csikesz,Honors Advisor Roger McWilliams,Director, no caffeine required Lisa Roetzel, Associate Director

20. Mathew Phan, Computer Resources Tanya Villegas, Office Manager Ryan Lombardini, Advising

21. Freshmen Honors Houses are in two dormitory complexes: Middle Earth and Mesa Court Residents of “The Shire” in Middle Earth Mesa Court

22. Mesa Court: Outdoors, dorm living room, and dorm kitchen (general meals are taken at the complex dining hall, not in dorm).

23. Thanksgiving dinner with turkey and sparkling apple juice Random selection of CHP Arroyo Vista dwellers

24. Honors program has a general student gathering and study room, The Locus, and numerous library study rooms.

25. Student-organized parties: Halloween and Semi-formal Wacky time

26. Weekly Coffee Hour Trivia Bowl: Battle of the Brains annual contest. Making fun of the Director

27. Angels Baseball Annual Camping Retreat Beach BBQs

28. “You have a terrific program, and I think you know how to use the money for substantive things. A lot of programs I see have become enamoured of what is fashionable but not necessarily substantive in the intellectual sense. Your program has a strong intellectual core, and a focus on helping students to develop important skills, including the ability to appreciate higher levels of culture, that will make them successful and, hopefully, more fulfilled, in the future. And you have such an interestingly diverse student body.” Dr. Julia Bondanella, PresidentNational Collegiate Honors Council

29. The Bottom Line - - UC Irvine Assessment • $ - Finest educational environment without regard to price. Factor in price: tell me a better deal. • Quality - Campuswide Honors Program students rival the best, and beat several, Ivy League schools. • Product – Vast majority of Campuswide Honors Program graduates go on to populate the finest graduate and professional schools in the world. The others are teaching in high school or dancing on Broadway.

30. Questions? We have answers. Call us, e-mail us, visit us (949-824-5461, honors@uci.edu, at UCI) See CHP web page http://www.honors.uci.edu

31. Welcome to UC Irvine