All About Honors

Greetings from the Fishback Honors College

Thank you for your interest in Van D. and Barbara B. Fishback Honors College at South ��ֱ�� State University. We serve as an engine of opportunity to elevate, enrich and enliven the student experience at SDSU. Honors is a dynamic community designed to enable talented, motivated students in any major to make the most of their academic experience at SDSU. Rich experiential and service-learning opportunities contribute to an incredible journey of self-discovery and rich academic experience. Through participation in Honors, our scholars develop as life-long learners and leaders.

Honors is about joining in a community of students, faculty and staff from all backgrounds who share in a love of learning and expanding the boundaries of our experiences and comfort zones. It’s about academic excellence as well as integrity, leadership and service. It’s about challenging and supporting one another and growing together to our greatest potential. Your Honors experience consists of a unique combination of exciting courses, community engagement and discovery.

Perhaps Honors for you will be a mind-blowing class discussion on the biological roots of true love or an engaging edge-of-your-seat presentation from an award-winning Organic Chemistry professor. Perhaps it will be cutting-edge research in a Pharmacy laboratory or at the SDSU Horse Unit or sharing a meal with those who have served our country at the Veteran’s Administration hospital in Sioux Falls. Perhaps you’ll find Honors at a faculty/student town hall meeting, a fireside conversation or at our Honors Literary Circle. Maybe you’ll find Honors through our student organization, in our beautiful living-learning community or on the road regionally, nationally or internationally. Most of all, I hope that, in Honors, you will find yourself joining something far bigger, more important, more meaning-filled and fun than you imagine.

The Honors family is here to support you as you engage in your own Honors journey. Please visit me as well as our incredible Honors Program Assistant, Neethesh Chakkingal, The Talented Honors Instructor of Curricular Innovation, Hanna Holmquist, The Great Kemp Endowed Professor, Christine Larson, our wonderful Academic Advisor and Student Services Specialist, Noah Roerig, and the awesome Teaching Assistant Cole Mingo, in 119 and 118 Honors Hall respectively. We look forward to visiting with you in person and to exploring together how the Fishback Honors College can be a wonderful part of your SDSU experience.

Loyally,

Rebecca C. Bott-Knutson
Dean

Mission and Vision

Mission Statement

The mission of Van D. and Barbara B. Fishback Honors College at South ��ֱ�� State University is to provide talented, motivated students with a personalized, engaging, distinctive academic and enrichment experience that will position them for success as lifelong learners and leaders.

Vision Statement

We will provide the rigor, opportunity and community necessary to equip our graduates with the skills and ethic to go into the world reaching under-served audiences, elevating those around them and using their gifts in service of others.

We serve as an engine of opportunity to elevate, enrich and enliven the student experience at South ��ֱ�� State University.

Questions

FAQs

Student Learning Outcomes

Effectively communicate ideas and beliefs with clarity, civility and respect.
Analyze and integrate multiple sources of information and demonstrate applications of critical thinking.
Articulate personal values, beliefs and self-identity.
Articulate the value of opportunities for all.
Demonstrate professionalism in a variety of contexts.

Does enrolling in Honors cost more?

No. Students in the Van D. and Barbara B. Fishback Honors College pay standard SDSU rates for tuition and fees. There is no additional cost to enroll in Honors courses.

Honors Staff