In fact, many of the Honors courses are designed to fulfill these General Education requirements. The Honors faculty are picked for their superior knowledge in their field of study and for their dedication to teaching. Students are also permitted to make suggestions as to who teaches Honors courses. Students are required to have an advisor in each major and minor they plan to study. In addition to these advisors, every honors student has a secondary advisor, the Director of the Honors Program, Dr. David Smith.
Honors classes are no less than five, but no more than twenty students.
They many select from any majors or minors offered at SUNY Potsdam. Our Program focuses on more qualitative and less quantitative learning. It is our belief that it is not the amount of work that is done, but the meaningfulness of the work that is most important. No, although there is a foreign language requirement which ALL students at SUNY Potsdam must fulfill before graduation. The College at Potsdam does award credit for AP courses, on a case by case basis.