From the Director
We emphasize three things in and through the Honors Program at Berry:
- Scholarship
- Service
- Leadership
As
Berry’s best and brightest, honors students should be leading and modeling for
the campus what it looks like to engage deeply with ideas, perspectives,
issues, and problems. Leadership is, or should be, service, as well as serving
the campus by example and by being conspicuously active, even proactive, in
making Berry a better place. Of course, the originating idea behind the Honors
Program is to give honors students the opportunity to get the most out of their
college educations – to take classes in small group settings, to interact with
and be taught by the college’s top faculty, and to be a part of and contribute
to a dynamic learning community.
In pursuit of some of these goals and values, the
Honors Program
attempts to provide experiences that prepare students to practice and develop
close analytical thinking, reading, and writing skills. Students are invited to
examine new ideas and even radically different perspectives on a range of
intellectual, cultural, and social issues. As an Honors faculty, we encourage
the trial and error of applying skills and ideas in students’ own research
agendas and creative projects.
Inter-cultural, trans-cultural study experiences are also an
emphasis of the program, which his why we have partnered with the University of Glasgow in Scotland for a program of study specially tailored for our honors
students. Opportunities for intensive research are also available through the
EuroScholars program that partners us with several universities across Europe.
Dr. Brian Carroll
Director of the Honors Program
Associate Professor of Communication
Phone: 706.368.6944 | Email: bc@berry.edu