By Professor Gerald J. Lemay Engineering, is an honors course designed to satisfy the science requirement for non-science students. Since the course was first offered in the summer of 1993, it has undergone one major revision. Hands-on applications are used for each of the four components of the course. Teaching a course with honors students as the participants allows for greater flexibility and innovation in terms of course content. As instructors, we invariably teach to and with our audience.
Honors students are open, highly motivated, and extremely inquisitive.
As a result, we find out what we know, what we have been assuming that our students know, and how to be better instructors. I heartily recommend this teaching opportunity to other faculty. Flying into Alburquerque, I wondered what I had gotten myself into. This ten-day honors course exploring the sacred sites of Northern New Mexico had seemed perfectly designed for me. I am fascinated by the cultural and spiritual diversity nestled in the dramatic landscape of our country's southwest and was ready for an adventure.