Honors Point Today!

Vol 2 No 8

Are you in Human Services, Criminal Justice, Chemical Dependency Counseling, Sociology, Psychology program or are you just interested to learn more about individuals involved in the legal system?

This event is a panel consisting of a prosecutor, defense attorney, a mitigator/investigator who contracts with the Ontario County Alternatives to Incarceration, and an investigator from the Ontario County Sheriff’s Dept.  The panel will speak around client centeredness in relation to their work.

Date:  Thursday, October 26, 2017

Place:  Canandaigua Main Campus, Room 4290

Time:  12:30pm – 1:45pm

Nasim Sarvaiya, who organized the event, said her “aim is to center it around the importance of softer interviewing skills and a holistic attitude in working with clients whether the client is a perpetrator or a victim” and “the importance of not judging, stereotyping, and/or racially profiling.”

This event is appropriate for any student in the criminal justice, sociology, psychology, human service, and chemical dependency program.  It’s also relevant to anyone who’s personally (or has had a family member) been on either side of the law.

Attendees will be invited and encouraged to ask questions of one or more of the panelists after the moderated discussion takes place.

This event is worth one Honors Point!

Remember Honors Events!

You need 15 points before you are done here (and a GPA of 3.25) to earn Honors Studies Scholar status.  All you need to do to earn an Honors point is the following:

1. Attend n Honors or Honors Approved event and sign the attendance sheet
2. Complete a short evaluation of the event (available there)
3. Write a reflective journal entry that contextualizes your experience there with other learning experiences, both in classes and outside (email me for the rubric we use to evaluate your journal!)
4. Write a reflective essay at the end of the semester that ties all Honors events you attended together using the following prompt as a starting point:

The Honors Studies Reflective Essay invites you to reflect on your role as learner and draw broader insights about your learning experiences. In order to do this, you are asked to explore three questions: First, where have I come from? By reflecting on your learning path before entering this specific Honors Studies experience, you are better situated to explore how far you have come. Second, where am I now? You can then reflect on this specific experience with its relevant concepts and how that relates to other experiences you have had as a learner in various courses and environments. Third, where am I going? This allows you to look forward to how you might apply what you’ve discovered about yourself to your future as a learner and a practitioner of a field. This essay will be evaluated according to the categories in the rubric provided.

The Honors Studies events you attended this semester covered, most likely, a wide variety of topics. As you revisit your reflective journals and explore the prompts above, think about connections you see in the topics offered and those you chose to explore further. Explore the activities you choose to attend and the ones about which you reflected on in a journal. Why? How do activities like these serve as learning experiences? Discuss the impact of the setting (such as location, time of day, attendees, and seating) on your interaction with the content. Explore the extent of your engagement in these activities, particularly the ones in which you actively participated. How did these activities influence your work in your classes or vice versa? In other words, use this reflective essay to fit the activities you attended and the reflective journal you kept into the intricate pathways you are taking on your journey as a learner.

These guidelines, as well as other supporting documents, can be obtained by emailing me at Trista.merrill@flcc.edu or honorsstudies@flcc.edu

Happy eventing!