Overview

H10s are meets-with courses where honors students meet with non-honors students to complete coursework. This mixed population course is a great opportunity for students to interact, meet students within their discipline, and for honors students to enjoy a unique opportunity to complete meaningful work in an area of great interest to them.

Building Strong H10 Courses

There are several key guidelines to offering a strong H10 section:

1. Clearly outline the H10 section’s requirements in the course’s syllabus (just as you would do for a graduate meets-with section).
2. Develop meaningful assignments which contribute to students’ mastery of course content. While there is no perfect assignment, previous H10 instructors have found success with assignments such as:
   • Having students lead a class discussion
   • Giving students the opportunity to complete an independent research project in lieu of a traditional exam
   • Reflection paper(s) which ask for students to engage with the class’s content and activities
   • Experiential assignment, i.e., students must go outside the classroom to complete research, service or some kind of activity that promotes engagement with the course
   • Changing the parameters of the course’s standard assignments to ask more in-depth questions.
   • Instead of testing if the H10 students understand a concept, build on such questions to explore how they can apply the concept.
3. As much as possible, find ways to meet with H10 students.

Honors students report one-on-one or small group time with their instructors as one of the most important and valuable attributes of Honors courses. H10 courses have to be creative with creating these kinds of opportunities since they are meets-with courses. Previous instructors have found success with creating this one-on-one time through strategically using dedicated office hours or working with the H10 section to find a time outside of class to meet a couple of times during the semester.