Courses fulfill general education requirements. To be taken as a regular component of Scholars' selection of courses in the Spring semester of the second year. Enrollment in the forum changes each semester and provides entry opportunities for students in departmental honors programs and for qualified transfer students. To earn final transcript designation as a Binghamton Scholar or All-University Honors, Scholars must participate in the Forum for a minimum of one semester in their first two years of residency and a minimum of one additional semester in their last two years of residency. Under the sponsorship and supervision of their faculty advisor, Binghamton Scholars select an experiential learning opportunity from a variety of credit bearing internships, and a wide range of other applied learning venues including field study, some facets of study abroad, applied research, clinical experience, community service, studio experience, externships, laboratory research assistantships, outdoor education, volunteer work, cooperative education, and student teaching.
Scholars continue to develop their portfolios.
They also meet regularly with their faculty advisor to report on their experiences, and to discuss goals, issues, and concerns. This course may be taken in either the first or second semester of the student's junior year. To earn final transcript designation as a Binghamton Scholar or All-University Honors, Scholars must participate in the Forum for a minimum of one semester in their first two years of residency and a minimum of one additional semester in their last two years of residency. The Scholars Capstone Course gives Scholars practice in applying their understanding of information technologies and the knowledge and skills from their general education courses to the identification and articulation of a complex problem related to their academic interests and to the completion of a collaborative project in which they address that problem with an interdisciplinary team of Scholars. In the final year of the Forum senior Scholars continue to serve as peer mentors to lower-division Scholars.