An Assessment of the Univeristy of Hawaii's Honors Program in Terms of Current Ideas on Education

Abstract

Throughout my two years in the University of Hawaii's Selected Studies Program and two years in its Honors Program, I have often questioned myself about the worth of the two programs. As an educ­ ation major, I have been especially interested in the "educational" aspects of the two, especially as concerns the Honors Program. In the past four years, I have been constantly reminded of the Program's intent to challenge the superior student and to provide him an education of an inter-disciplinary nature. I understood this to mean that I would have an experience unlike that of the ordinary student. I understood this to mean that my classes would be excit­ ing, interesting, relevant. Perhaps I was drastically mistaken by expecting so much, but nevertheless, I did.