Brooklyn College of The City University of New York
Director: Professor Kenneth Bruffee
2231 Boylan Hall
(718) 951-4114

A four-year interdisciplinary liberal arts program, the Scholars Program is designed for a small community of well-prepared, academically ambitious students who are eager to extend themselves beyond normal course requirements. Its honors classes are small. Its curriculum encourages students to develop and pursue new interests by exploring relationships among different areas of knowledge. Students learn how to formulate, discuss, and write clearly about significant issues and to evaluate their work independently and realistically.

Scholars Program students carry the same course load as other students but each semester do honors-level work in one or two of the courses they are carrying. As freshmen, they take an honors section of Freshman Composition that prepares them to work independently on interdisciplinary honors projects during their sophomore, junior, and senior years. They also take honors sections of selected Core Studies coures, a sophomore seminar, and a senior colloquium. The program encourages students in their junior year to broaden their experience with study at other colleges, study abroad, or involvement in work-internship programs in the New York City area.

Courses that Scholars Program students take for honors credit and pass with a grade of A, B, or P are indicated on their transcripts with an "H." Graduation from the program is marked with special recognition at Commencement, by a transcript notation indicating membership in good standing in the program and satisfactory completion of its requirements, and by a note on the diploma, "Honors in the Scholars Program." Curricular requirements for the Scholars Program are described under "Interdisciplinary Studies" in the chapter "Programs of Study" in the college Bulletin.

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