The Champlain professor shares her love for these topics inside the classroom and out. She recently escorted Champlain students to nearby Montr al to take in an Impressionist art exhibit. As a longtime summer-session professor at John Cabot University in Rome, she knows the city well. While Nahra teaches British Literature, Western Civilization and Honors English Composition this semester, she also directs Champlain's Honors Program . Incoming students with strong academic records are selected for these high-level courses, where class sizes are even smaller than usual.
Honors courses encourage close interaction between professors, students and classmates.
The program gives students the option of taking courses with other people that want to work hard. Nahra reports that Honors Algebra is the newest honors class offered on campus. In addition to teaching in Rome, Nahra taught for a decade at the University of Vermont. She earned her doctorate at Princeton, master's degree at Stanford and bachelor's degree at Colby College. Her r sum also includes frequent speaking appearances for the Vermont Council for the Humanities and authoring a few history books.