New Honors Course Challenges Students to “Read” City
October 2021
A brand-new Honors Colloquium, “City as Text: Fort Worth,” doesn’t require any physical or digital textbooks. Instead, Honors professors Wendy Williams and Frederick Gooding, Jr., who teach separate sections of the course, encourage their students to “read” the city of Fort Worth to understand it as they would any useful textbook. The City as Text […]
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Dr. Wendi Sierra prepares for an online semester with unique virtual experiences for her students
August 2020
Honors’ newest faculty member, Dr. Wendi Sierra, comes to TCU with multiple years of experience teaching online and feels ready for the fall semester. She designed her course, “Games and Learning” to provide students with a unique virtual experience that she hopes will keep them both enthused about and engaged in the material. Sierra plans […]
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Dr. Ron Pitcock Honored with Fort Worth Business Press Corporate Philanthropy Award for His Work with Honors Course, “Nature of Giving & Philanthropy”
October 2019
Each year, the Fort Worth Business Press presents its Corporate Philanthropy Awards, which honor community-minded companies and individuals who are philanthropic leaders in their organizations and communities. This year’s award recipients included a familiar face – Assistant Dean, J. Vaughn & Evelyne H. Wilson Honors Fellow, Director of Prestigious Scholarships, and Honors Professor Ron Pitcock. […]
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TCU Honors Course Goes Global
July 2018
One of the world’s most popular games has made its way into a TCU Honors course. This past spring, Dr. Ze-Li Dou incorporated Go, a strategy game that originated in ancient China, into his Honors Colloquium, “Asian Cultures on the Go.” Go has remained popular in East Asia over the past 2500 years and is […]
Read MoreHonors Philanthropy Class Students Advocate for Nonprofit at National Conference
July 2016
TCU graduate and Honors Laureate Maddie Reddick (‘16) and Honors senior Blair Guilfoile represented TCU, the John V. Roach Honors College and the nonprofit Educational First Steps at the Philanthropy Lab National conference held during the final week of June. The conference, which took place at the Omni Hotel in Dallas over the course of […]
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