HONORS COLLEGE COMMUNIQUE: December 2020
Hello from the Honors College! In partnership with Academic Advising, we are sending a
monthly Honors College Communique on the Advising listserv, in which we will send short
updates about:
1. Honors opportunities open to all students
2. A student highlight from your advising areas
3. Additional opportunities for students you may want to pass along
4. Contacts within Honors for more information
Thank you to advisors for your help judging our Experiential Learning Fair!
Our Experiential Learning Fair, or ELF, is where Honors students showcase the experiential
learning they do outside of the classroom. These experiential activities can count for
Honors College Experience requirements, too. For those students, our ELF is the 'final
exam' for their out of class activities. In their poster and presentation, students
talk about how they met Honors College learning outcomes, followed the Honors College
ethos, and completed an experience in Service, Professional Development, Intellectual
Achievement & Research, Cultural Exploration, Engaged Living, and Skill Development
(the "SPICES"). Judges come from across our university: wonderful staff like
Advising, faculty from all colleges, and graduate students. Thank you again for making the
Fall 2020 ELF a success! To see and listen to our student presentations, visit our ELF
site<https://honors.utsa.edu/students/programs/elf>.
Honors Opportunities for All Students: Honors Courses
Each semester, students from across the university have the opportunity to take Honors
College courses. For a list of Spring 2020 courses, please see our Course
Description<https://honors.utsa.edu/students/courses> page:
Highlighted course: Social Demography and Public Policy: Demography of Latinos
DEM 4963.902 (Hybrid; MW 1:00-2:15pm; Instructor: Dr. R. Sáenz)
Not only are Latinos driving the U.S. demographic future, but they are also increasingly
important in their impact on all of the country's institutions, from the workforce,
consumer markets, K-12 and college and university enrollment, health providers, voters and
political leaders, religious congregants, homeowners, etc. Despite the growing importance
of Latinos for the future of the U.S., they continue to be not well understood and to be
perceived as people with a relatively short history in the U.S. This course will provide a
comprehensive overview of the Latino population in the United States with a focus on the
intersection between Latino demography and major substantive topics including history,
theoretical developments, immigration, political engagement, education, work and economic
life, families and households, gender and sexuality, religion, health and healthcare,
crime and victimization, and mass media. The course will emphasize the usefulness of
multimethod data and analytical approaches; demographic, sociological, and critical race
theoretical approaches; and multidisciplinary perspectives. Students should have
backgrounds in the understanding of the social science, educational, and related
disciplines.
If you know of students who might be interested in an Honors course, here are the
important details:
1. Students need to complete and submit this form to honors(a)utsa.edu:
https://honors.utsa.edu/resources/pdf/HONORS-COURSE-for-non-honors-studen...
2. In general, to enroll in an Honors course, non-Honors students must typically meet
Honors GPA standards (3.5 or higher).
Current students can also join the Honors College!
Do you know a current UTSA student with a 3.5 GPA or above (under 45 cumulative hours)
that might be interested in joining the Honors College? Have them reach out to
honorsadmissions(a)utsa.edu. Benefits of joining the Honors
College<https://honors.utsa.edu/> include small interdisciplinary courses and a
tight-knit community across all UTSA colleges, Honors-specific scholarships, access funds
to pursue experiential learning opportunities, and professional coaching.
Student Highlight: Meet Aramis Babcock
[
https://alamoissa.org/resources/Pictures/AB.png]Aramis Babcock is a senior studying
Cybersecurity at UTSA. After traveling to China in high school as a student at Brandeis,
Aramis enrolled in Chinese language classes at UTSA. In the summer of 2019, he studied
abroad in Taichung, Taiwan, where he took Chinese language courses on a UTSA faculty-led
program offered by Professor Ward of Modern Languages and Literatures. Aramis spent this
past summer in a virtual internship at Deloitte, where he was a Risk and Financial
Advisory Intern for Cyber, Government and Public Services. Aramis trained for and
completed an Ironman Triathlon, which he presented at the Honors College Experiential
Learning Fair. Aramis is a great example of a student that has taken advantage of UTSA
programming from the College of Business, the College of Liberal and Fine Arts, and the
Honors College.
Read more about Aramis
here<https://honors.utsa.edu/news/highlights/2019/september/aramis-bab...;.
Additional Opportunities for All Students: Fulbright Canada Post-COVID Challenge
Students can apply as individuals or teams to the Fulbright Canada Post-COVID Challenge,
which link students with mentors across North America. The Post-COVID Challenge hopes to
inspire youth and provide a venue for them to engage in shaping and enriching our
collective future. We are seeking bold ideas about the way we live, connect, and grow in a
Post-COVID world in Public Health and Wellbeing, Digital Transformation or Social Cohesion
and Economic Recovery. Applications are due on January 30th. The Office of Nationally
Competitive Awards, housed in the Honors College, can support students to put together an
application. Students can contact
Andrew.Chapman2@utsa.edu<mailto:Andrew.Chapman2@utsa.edu> for more details or visit
https://www.fulbright.ca/programs/youth/post-covid-challenge. Students looking to travel
after graduation to do research, attend a funded-MA program, or teach English abroad can
also consider the Fulbright Student Program's other opportunities.
Our best regards,
Drew Chapman, Director of Nationally Competitive Awards,
andrew.chapman2@utsa.edu<mailto:andrew.chapman2@utsa.edu>
Jill Fleuriet, Honors College Acting Dean,
jill.fleuriet@utsa.edu<mailto:jill.fleuriet@utsa.edu>
Andrew Chapman, Ph.D.
Director, Office of NationallyCompetitive
Awards<https://honors.utsa.edu/onca/>
The University of Texas at San Antonio
Honors College
andrew.chapman2@utsa.edu<mailto:andrew.chapman2@utsa.edu>