Davis Honors Challenge Faculty Handbook

The Davis Honors Challenge at the University of California, Davis is a four year, campus wide honors program. The Web based Faculty Handbook was funded by a grant from FIPSE (Fund for the Improvement of Post Secondary Education, 1997-1999)

The handbook is designed to serve as a comprehensive overview of the program and its key component the Honors Seminar. In addition it is designed to serve as a teaching resource for faculty leading Honors Seminars.

Each of the four major sections of the handbook represents an important aspect of the honors seminar. Supporting pages contain both original documents and links to Internet resources.

#	Section Title	Contents
1.	Introduction	Program overview Honors seminar overview Choosing a topic Planning an honors seminar Web resources
2.	Learning Theories and Strategies	A definition of critical thinking Learning styles Research strategies Introduction to reflective judgment
3.	Team Work	Why work in teams? Team-building activities and icebreakers Practical methods for running meetings, reaching consensus and dealing with difficult members
4.	Assessment & Assignment	Methods of assessment Components of a grading scheme Rubrics and evaluation forms Seminar assignments Web page design

Table of Contents | Intro | Teams | Learning | Assessment | Map | Web