Concentration Requirements

MTS Honors Concentration Requirements

            General qualifications (effective as of September 1989, updated 2011)

Admittance to the M/TS Honors Program as a liberal arts and sciences student.

Election of Honors Concentration no later than the second semester of the freshmen year

            Honors courses – Among the 63 credits for the A.A. or A.S. Degree, Liberal Arts and Sciences, a student must enroll for a minimum of eight honors courses, overall.  Most students elect more honors offerings than the required minimum of eight.

Core requirements

1.     English 101 Honors and 102 Honors (unless international placement or waived in writing by mentor)

One sophomore Honors course in literature is required, either English 220 or English 221,

Honors Literature Seminar, or English 244 Honors.

If the student takes two Honors Literature courses, only one research essay is mandatory.

If the student enrolls in only one of these seminars, then the research essay must be done.

The English Honors Literature Seminar at Cambridge University Summer Session cannot be substituted.

2.     English 910:  Theories and Practice of Researching (a two-credit module, first or second semester).

3.     Three credits of Physical Education in addition to the required 60 academic credits for graduation.

4.     MAT 125, Statistics, is recommended for non-math oriented honors students; however, math-oriented students should take pre-Calculus or Calculus.

5.     One year of foreign language (two semesters) for all liberal arts students

      whose emphasis for the degree is not science.  Most colleges to which the MTS students

      transfer maintain a foreign language exit requirement through the Intermediate level. 

      Students who have completed 3 years of Foreign Language in high school, should enroll

      in 201 and continue through 202.  For beginning students who take 101 and 102, they

      should continue with 201 and 202 in order to satisfy the transfer institutions’ requirements.

      No one who has completed three years of one language in high school may enroll in 101.

6.     One year of BIO 105, 106, General Biology (two semesters) with labs, or another

      lab science, Physics or Chemistry.  Honors Biology is recommended for students who

      can do the more intensive study.   “A grade of “C" or better is required to continue in any science honors sequence”.

7.     International Study Abroad or an Internship.  MTS offers a two week summer Honors Programme in Cambridge University in England and several other winter and spring        short-term international courses.

      RCC’s Internship office is located in the Career Service Center in the Technology building.

8.     Extra-Curricular Activities related to a field of major interest.

9.     Attendance at a Transfer Procedure Seminar (no credit)

10.  Regular correspondence with mentor

11.  Grades

      Students must maintain a 3.5 cumulative index at graduation to receive an  MTS Honors Concentration, with nothing below a 3.2 in any semester.

12.  Honors concentration acknowledgements on transcript and diploma.

***An A.A/A.S. degree with honors is awarded to MTS participants who complete all of the requirements above and maintain a cumulative grade point average of at least 3.5, With Honors; for a 3.7, With High Honors; and for a 3.9-4.0, With Highest Honors.

      Students who are not receiving an MTS Honors Concentration but who have participated in the MTS Honors Program, that is, completed all of the Concentration requirements but have a grade point

       average between 3.2 and 3.5, will receive the following notation on their transcript:

     “Participant in the Mentor Talented Student Honors Program.”