Welcome to the NWACC Honors Program!
The NWACC Honors Program offers a curriculum of small, challenging classes, sponsors forums and speakers, and provides service-learning and travel opportunities for its students.The purpose of the program is to provide our students with the tools necessary to plan and achieve life goals by instilling within them intellectual excitement and a thirst for knowledge, open-mindedness and an appreciation for diversity, and an understanding of the value of community service.
Mission Statement
The NWACC Honors Program is committed to provide NWACC’s most intellectually gifted and motivated students with an innovative, principled, active, and challenging learning environment. Honors faculty will engage students to think critically, communicate effectively, value community service, and exhibit cultural awareness with an appreciation for diversity.
The Honors Program also is eager to provide educational opportunities for the community, welcomes partnerships with local agencies and businesses, and is committed to projects that serve the the needs of the diverse populations of Northwest Arkansas.
Learning Outcomes & Program Objectives
By taking honors courses students master key learning outcomes that are essential to the NWACC Honors experience: Critical Thinking, Communication, Community Service, and Cultural Awareness.
Students who graduate from the NWACC Honors Program will:
Think Critically
- Differentiate facts from opinions or emotional responses
- Analyze written evidences and creatively develop original ideas and arguments
- Synthesize discipline-based and/or cross-discipline-based information
Communicate Effectively
- Express ideas and concepts precisely and persuasively in multiple formats
- Debate ideas and arguments in a respectful manner
- Manage appropriate technologies in individual and/or group presentations
Value Community Service
- Apply classroom experiences to real world situations
- Demonstrate responsible citizenship
Display an empathetic awareness of Cultural Diversity
- Analyze the ways in which race, ethnicity, and/or gender are socially constructed
- Measure the importance and influence of diversity within and among cultures and societies
- Evaluate relevance, bias, and stereotyping in multicultural interactions
- Create strategies for demonstrating respect for other cultures
Please explore this website. You'll find information about program requirements, honors courses, scholarships, and travel opportunities. If you have any questions, please contact Dr. April Brown, the Honors Director.
The NWACC Honors Program is a member of the National Collegiate Honors Council.
For questions or comments on this content, please contact honors@nwacc.edu.
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