GCC offers and constantly announces different workshops, places you can volunteer, or activities for Honors students. This is something that is required for everyone that is in honors, and helpful to achieve. At the beginning this can be a little confusing, since basically you have an extra class and due to COVID you can’t really have a proper introduction to what you need to do. You have an extra class on your Canvas that is the “Honors Program”, there they post constantly different activities that will be taking place either online, in person, or they post a list with different places where you can accomplish your volunteer hours. Sometimes the easiest is online, the workshops that they normally have are one-hour long, after attending one of them, you must do an activity that is required you complete. Also, you must take a picture to proof that you attended whatever activity you picked, and that you were paying attention. If you choose to volunteer for your co-curricular activity, you need to volunteer for two total hours. As I already stated, there are different options from where you can choose, but the institution you decide has to be pre-approved, if not the volunteer won’t count as your co-curricular activity. And the last one is some activities that they also count as co-curricular, such as visiting a museum, there has been symphonies, art expositions that you can attend, activities at GCC, etc. So, there are different options that you can consider in order to accomplish and have a successful semester, just make sure that whatever you decide, is before the due date and you do all the post assignments, so it counts.
Author: Jose Derbez
Jose Derbez is a student pursuing a degree at GCC on Digital Media Arts. This profile is created for his Journalism class, hopefully he can get to post some interesting posts about different subjects. Also, his interest are digital media in general, he enjoys learning new things like modeling and animation, he will like to continue his career at ASU and graduate from there. He also would like to improve his writing and his ability to read more efficiently and being able to identify different trustful sources. Career wise he thinks this class will help him to improve his writing and his ability to write with a better style, better composition and a higher quality work, so he can have a better writing skill.
Hi Jose,
I was drawn to your post because I am interested in learning more about the Honors program. It made me smile when I read that GCC constantly announces workshops and volunteer opportunities. GCC does seem to communicate a lot. I always see e-mails with announcements and resources for students, which I appreciate, even if I don’t use all of them. Your information gave me a well-rounded description of what would be needed to be successful in the Honors program. It is an opportunity I have been offered but I never really considered. I didn’t even realize you needed volunteer hours, but I think that it is such a great requirement. Community involvement is a wonderful way to interact with places and people we have not yet encountered. I would enjoy attending art expositions or symphonies more often and this sounds like a great opportunity to do just that. Thank you for including details about the length of workshops and the photographic proof of attendance that is required. These specifics aren’t always included in general descriptions of a program, so I appreciate you taking the time to include them in your blog. I am curious if you are in the Honors program and if you recommend it for students who already have a full-time class schedule? Thank you for your post and I hope to see more from your blog soon!
-Amanda Kauffroath
I’ve been very curious about the honors program for sometime now but didn’t really know what all it entails. I love the idea of getting to improve my community and campus. It feels like it’s been hard to know exactly where to go about volunteering or honors programs. The few times I’ve been on campus with questions they tell me to go online-and then I’m lost and on my own!
This information is very helpful, I didn’t even realize that to be a part of the honors program you had to meet so many requirements. My thought was you just have to keep your grades up, but it does makes sense! Does GCC ever post about these activities? Not only would I not mind attending just in my free time for fun, but I’m sure some of the things would be a blast to be a part of! I’m not sure if I’m cut out for the honors program though, even though as you described it doesn’t sound super demanding-on top of a full course load it might be hard to manage your time with all of it. I definitely am someone who often bites off more than I can chew and it backfires! Who knows though, it might be the perfect fit as long as I can keep my GPA up!