College Component - GCCIS

GCCIS students in the Honors Program have access to a wide variety of unique opportunites, including: annual trips to various cities throughout the United States and Canada; direct interaction with lecturers recruited for the GCCIS Honors Lecture Series; opportunities for professional development with both RIT faculty and computing professionals; all of the benefits offered to all RIT honors students; and interaction with a diverse group of GCCIS honors students and faculty.

All Honors students are required to attend three lecture symposiums each year, two must be from the Honors lecture series the other one may be from the Dean’s lecture series. Any other substitutions must have prior approval of either the college Honors advocate or your department Honors advocate. If an Honors student participates in the college trip or has been on co-op for two of the three academic quarters, then the lecture series requirement is a minimum of two symposiums. If you have time conflicts with the scheduled lectures you should work with your Honors advocate in planning how you will meet the requirements.

Attendance at lecture symposiums is not validated until a completed evaluation sheet is submitted to the Honors support staff in the GCCIS dean’s office. Once attendance is validated that information will be automatically forwarded to the Institute Honors Council for credit towards complementary learning.

All Honors students are required to attend any specially scheduled college-wide meetings with the department and college advocates.

Freshman Honors Seminar. Freshman students entering the honors program must attend the Freshman Honors Seminar in the Fall term of their first year at RIT. All freshman honors students in GCCIS attend this seminar together. The purpose of the freshman honors seminar is to explain the honors program to incoming students and to introduce students to the departments, the faculty, and the current scholarly activity in the departments.

The freshman honors seminar meets once a week for two hours. The seminar is graded pass/fail and carries zero hours of credit. You must receive a passing grade in order to remain in the honors program. To pass the seminar you must attend at least 75% of the class sessions through the term.

The GCCIS Student Honors Committee will be composed of the elected GCCIS delegate to the Institute Honors Council and an elected representative from each of the departments. The departmental representatives will be elected in the fall quarter no later than the third week of the quarter in accordance with departmental election guidelines. The representative will serve until elections the following fall quarter.

The responsibilities of the student honors committee will include:

• Attendance at required meetings
• Participation in establishing and revising college honors policies and requirements
• Assist in communications to college honors students
• Participate to represent ideas of students for events
• Act as liaisons to encourage student attendance at events and facilitate interaction
• Management of submitted event evaluation forms
• Submit status reports of students’ fulfillment of college event requirements to college advocate

Participation as a departmental representative will automatically be forwarded to the Institute Honors Council at the end of each full quarter of service for evaluation toward complementary learning.