Building Honors Contracts

Honors contracts, like honors courses, benefit from the creative pedagogical approaches and thoughtful administrative practices that characterize honors education. This book offers a blueprint for building honors contracts that transcend the transactional. The opening chapter suggests that the word "contract" delimits more possibilities than it reveals. Eleven subsequent chapters rebut this assertion and explore how contracts can enrich honors education by structuring collaborative partnerships for experiential learning beyond the walls of the classroom. By grounding honors contracts in creative pedagogy and administrative practice, this volume empowers honors educators to build communities and curricula that welcome administrators, faculty members, and students home.