Hoda Mirafzal
When I first entered college, I had no knowledge of Honor's Program in our college. I was searching for some opportunity to show my potential. I definitely did not want to be in the normal rank. In my second semester at QCC, I found about Honors Program, where the students in the classroom are selected from higher academic backgrounds. The low population of the honor's class (maximum 15) and consequently the low faculty-to-student ratio would allow one to perfect his studies in the subject by getting more attention from the professor. Honors classes were the most determining part of my education in QCC. It was because of honors classes that I was able to overcome my inner conflicts and finally decide what major to pursue. Honors Classes gave me the required self-confidence to trigger my future extravagant ambitions very optimistically. These classes proved that I am much more capable of excelling my academic goals than what an outsider in society would think of a community college student.
Performance of extracurricular activities and strict educational standards in honors classes provided me the scientific environment that a student would need to become a scientist. Honors classes have definitely influenced my future choices and my way of approaching my academic and career goals.
Carlos Penaloza
The honors CHD-152 class offered at QCC is an experience enriching course. You attain many skills that you would not normally attain in a non honors chemistry class. Skills such as Power Point presentations, and more hands on training during the lab sessions. With a limited number of students registered in the classes, there is a better chance for everyone to participate and perform every experiment. The aspect that I liked most about the honors CH-152 course is the attention given to every student, the professors are more personal with the students and help a lot more. Every student gets the chance to ask questions and clarify the material. Non-honors courses do not offer personal attention, all students do not get the chance to perform all the experiments, and all the material does not become clear to the student. There is no personal attention; it would be too hard for the instructor to help everyone in large class. I will definitely suggest this course to my friends, there are invaluable experiences and skills that can't be attained in regular chemistry courses, the skills that are learned in this class are much more refined and clearer then those that would be learned in a regular non-honors course.
Noani Propst
The honor course CH D-152 was very productive and instructive for me. It was clear that we had more opportunities to learn with more intensity the subjects on class. I enjoyed the challenge and the help offered by the Prof. Moni because I learned how to observe more analytical to simple facts. I really liked the help that I found in my colleagues
because we try to understand difficulties together. Many times we went further the topic covered in class because of our personal curiosity. This honor course is more intense that the regular course offered to all students. I would recommend to my friends this course because they will learn more profound the topics enjoying them.
Ezihe Agwu
The course was a lot more challenging considering the comments made by my friends in non-honors course about my test questions. The class was small bunch of geniuses making it more interesting and competitive.The best part of the course was infact the presentation; which entailed studying and understanting material covered both in and out of class with the intent of educating others during the presentation. As a matter of fact a couple of the students registered for the course for spring 2003 were partly advised by me.
John Calderon
This honors course provides an excellent foundation in problem solving and develops important presentation skills. The class size is much smaller than non-honors courses. However, the quality of the class does not suffer from the lack of students. On the contrary, the class is more engaging and close friendships have been formed as a result of enrollment in the class. The material presented is very well organized. Teaching style is conducive to learning. The amount of material taught and absorbed is dependent on the motivation of class. This honors course is highly recommended.
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