Students have an opportunity to share anxieties and concerns in confidence and privacy. Working, playing, studying, laughing, living and sharing good and bad times together, strong friendships and powerful bonds made with similarly-minded fellow honors students and staff with whom many will later attend the university are all desired program outcomes. Speech techniques are incorporated to help prepare and deliver the presentation. B. Basic skills are strengthened and developed 1. Students electing to take math are tested and placed in the appropriate math course best suited to accelerate skills.
All students take a writing course, culminating in the writing of a research paper.
All students take a study skills course. Seniors take College Success Skills, an orientation to college and possible career options. They examine academic and non-academic issues with which successful college students must deal. A Native Studies course for seniors examines Native history and political development, including the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act and amendments. All students elect either a course in Native dance or aerobics.