{"id":5040,"date":"2017-11-12T01:00:18","date_gmt":"2017-11-12T05:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/?p=5040"},"modified":"2017-11-12T01:00:18","modified_gmt":"2017-11-12T05:00:18","slug":"fit-honors-courses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/2017\/11\/12\/fit-honors-courses\/","title":{"rendered":"FIT Honors Courses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Everyone,<\/p>\n<p>Did you know that FIT offers honors courses that can meet liberal arts requirements? Typically, students in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fitnyc.edu\/honors\/index.php\">Presidential Scholar Program<\/a>\u00a0sign up for these classes, as it is one of the program requirements. However, the honors courses are not limited to just students in the Presidential Scholars Program; any student who maintains a 3.5 GPA can take the honors courses offered at school. These courses can be substituted with a required liberal arts course.<br \/>\nWhat makes these courses so unique? The honors courses are not necessarily more difficult, but rather stimulating and inventive! Here are some examples of courses available to take:<\/p>\n<p>HA 382 &#8211; Beauty: The Human Ideal in Visual Culture-<br \/>\nThis unique course explores the theme of beauty throughout different works of art and social sources in various decades. Discover the way that the human body and beauty has shaped power and belief in society.<\/p>\n<p>HA 394 &#8211; History of New York Architecture-<br \/>\nExplore New York City&#8217;s architecture by visiting different sites around Manhattan. This class allows you to explore outside of the classroom and learn first hand the cultural, social, economic, and political forces that molded The Big Apple&#8217;s architecture.<\/p>\n<p>HA 395- Studies In American Indian Art &amp; Culture-<br \/>\nIn this art history course, learn about the art work of Native Americans from Alaska to the border of Mexico. In this class, you will dive into the different mediums of American Indian art, such as pottery, paintings, rituals and more. How did the artwork created and the native&#8217;s culture change and develop with Western contact? Learn about it all in this honors course!<\/p>\n<p>These are just a few examples of the honors courses available at FIT. More information on courses is available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fitnyc.edu\/honors\/courses.php\">here<\/a>. Be sure to check it out!<\/p>\n<p>Until next time,<br \/>\nAnnmarie X<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Everyone, Did you know that FIT offers honors courses that can meet liberal arts requirements? Typically, students in the Presidential Scholar Program\u00a0sign up for these classes, as it is one of the program requirements. However, the honors courses are not limited to just students in the Presidential Scholars Program; any student who maintains a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/2017\/11\/12\/fit-honors-courses\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;FIT Honors Courses&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":566,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8688,59284,133,31161,8721,36398,7519],"tags":[33654,41198,42,59827,31499,31519],"class_list":["post-5040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-restaurants","category-annmarie","category-bloggers","category-campus-life","category-courses","category-liberal-arts-academics","category-registration","tag-class-registration","tag-courses","tag-fit","tag-honors-course","tag-honors-program","tag-registration-2","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3StnM-1ji","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/566"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}