When you complete the college courses, request that the Foothill College registrar send a college transcript to your high school. The diploma will be issued in accordance with your school’s procedures. All credit courses taken at Foothill count as college credit, whether or not they count toward high school requirements.
Honors Institute For more than 30 years, Foothill College has provided an honors program that offers an enriched academic, cultural and social experience to intellectually inquisitive and motivated students. The Honors Institute offers students an academic environment that promotes critical thinking, analytical writing, and research skills with an innovative and challenging curriculum. Opportunities for participation at cultural events, conferences and unique honors seminars provide students an intellectual community that encourages and supports them in achieving their goals. The Honors Institute offers stimulating academic opportunities to a previously underserved population, prepares talented and ambitious students for the challenges of higher education, and supports successful transfer to either baccalaureategranting colleges and universities or expanded career opportunities. A fundamental goal of the program is to promote self-confidence and increase self-esteem in students who need the encouragement to excel as well as the courage to continue their education and fulfi ll their goals. The Honors institute recruits and cultivates honors students, nurturing and encouraging those students who might never have considered themselves capable of success in an enhanced learning environment or transferring to a selective university. Rather than presenting itself as a selective entity, the Honors Institute welcomes all students and especially encourages students remediating through basic skills courses to strive toward participation in the honors program. Foothill College is one of a handful of community colleges in Northern California that is approved for the UCLA Transfer Alliance Program (TAP), which offers students preferred admission to the UCLA College of Letters & Science (80-percent or higher admission rate). To be eligible, students are required to complete the honors scholar program, which consists of completing a minimum of seven honors courses/minimum of 23 honors units. Regardless of their interest in transferring to UCLA, all honors students are encouraged to complete the honors scholar program, which awards students with the permanent transcript notation of “Honors Scholar” and offers additional transfer admission and scholarship opportunities.
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Foothill College honors students are typically leaders at the annual Bay Area Community College Honors Research Symposium (held at Stanford University and UC Berkeley). Foothill honors faculty work closely with honors students to mentor students in their research. Here, honors students present their research to hundreds of other honors students. Other honors program benefits include specialized honors counseling, early registration, specialized workshops, free tickets to attend local lectures with internationally renown writers, scientists, artists and politicians, transfer admission guarantees (TAGs), and more. Minimum requirements for participation include completion of ENGL 1A with a grade of B or better, 10 quarter units, and a 3.3+ GPA. Students without any college experience may apply if they have a high school GPA of 3.5 and completion of ENGL 1A. Students who are placed in Foothill’s ENGL 1AH: Honors English Composition course via Foothill College placement tests are also eligible. Students who are not yet eligible for the program based upon the GPA requirements are welcome to participate in the Try an Honors Course Program, which offers students who have competed ENGL 1A or ESLL 26 with a grade of B or better an opportunity to enroll in an honors course (pending space availability). For more information, access www/foothill.edu/hon or call (650) 949-7638.
Foothill College Course Catalog 2012–2013 • www.foothill.edu