Opening Question Torrey Honors College at Biola University

You might get the impression that we love to ask questions over here, but we don’t care so much about the answers at the end of the road. Far from it. In this episode, Ellie, Paul, and Fred lay out all the answers you ever wanted to hear. Okay, maybe not. But we do talk through some answers. 

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Torrey Honors College is the undergraduate honors program at Biola University. We bring together students with different backgrounds from all over the world in pursuit of a common goal.
At Torrey Honors, students read deeply from some of the best books ever written. They gather with close friends to spend hundreds of hours in discussion, searching out answers to big questions together — all while guided by a faculty mentor. And when they graduate, students enter a community dedicated to lifelong learning and pursuing Christ both personally and vocationally.

Learn more at https://www.biola.edu/torrey

With no exams to test your knowledge, no cheat sheets with plot summaries, and just a big stack of books to show for a semester’s worth of work….what exactly can you say you “learned” in your first semester of Torrey? Paul, Fred, and Ellie talk through some misconceptions about what we all think learning is today. Is college just about memorizing facts and figures - or about something more long-lasting? 

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Torrey Honors College is the undergraduate honors program at Biola University. We bring together students with different backgrounds from all over the world in pursuit of a common goal.
At Torrey Honors, students read deeply from some of the best books ever written. They gather with close friends to spend hundreds of hours in discussion, searching out answers to big questions together — all while guided by a faculty mentor. And when they graduate, students enter a community dedicated to lifelong learning and pursuing Christ both personally and vocationally.

Learn more at https://www.biola.edu/torrey

Here’s something that drives new students crazy: we don’t tell them their grade until the very end of their final oral exam! But we’ve got lots of good reasons for withholding this seemingly central token of modern education. Hear from Fred, Ellie, and Paul to find out why. 



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Torrey Honors College is the undergraduate honors program at Biola University. We bring together students with different backgrounds from all over the world in pursuit of a common goal.
At Torrey Honors, students read deeply from some of the best books ever written. They gather with close friends to spend hundreds of hours in discussion, searching out answers to big questions together — all while guided by a faculty mentor. And when they graduate, students enter a community dedicated to lifelong learning and pursuing Christ both personally and vocationally.

Learn more at https://www.biola.edu/torrey

Books change, tutors come and go, but your cohortmates are forever. When students begin their time in the Torrey Honors College, they are assigned to a cohort that is theirs for all four years. What is our reasoning behind keeping cohorts the same? What are the academic goods of pursuing an education with the same group of people? Ellie, Fred, and Paul talk through this Torrey tradition in today’s episode. 



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Torrey Honors College is the undergraduate honors program at Biola University. We bring together students with different backgrounds from all over the world in pursuit of a common goal.
At Torrey Honors, students read deeply from some of the best books ever written. They gather with close friends to spend hundreds of hours in discussion, searching out answers to big questions together — all while guided by a faculty mentor. And when they graduate, students enter a community dedicated to lifelong learning and pursuing Christ both personally and vocationally.

Learn more at https://www.biola.edu/torrey

In our class discussions, students and faculty work hard together to learn from the text on the table. But as it turns out, the way that students rely on each other, the tutor, and the text can make or break the conversation. Hear from Paul, Fred, and Ellie on the not-so-obvious importance of trust in class. 

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Torrey Honors College is the undergraduate honors program at Biola University. We bring together students with different backgrounds from all over the world in pursuit of a common goal.
At Torrey Honors, students read deeply from some of the best books ever written. They gather with close friends to spend hundreds of hours in discussion, searching out answers to big questions together — all while guided by a faculty mentor. And when they graduate, students enter a community dedicated to lifelong learning and pursuing Christ both personally and vocationally.

Learn more at https://www.biola.edu/torrey

Imagine signing up for a survey of British Lit, only to discover a systematic theologian is your prof. Torrey’s like that - but multiplied by a hundred! Central to our philosophy of education is a robust interdisciplinary approach to the books we read. So why is a theologian teaching you Shakespeare in our class sessions? Join Fred, Ellie, and Paul to find out. 



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Torrey Honors College is the undergraduate honors program at Biola University. We bring together students with different backgrounds from all over the world in pursuit of a common goal.
At Torrey Honors, students read deeply from some of the best books ever written. They gather with close friends to spend hundreds of hours in discussion, searching out answers to big questions together — all while guided by a faculty mentor. And when they graduate, students enter a community dedicated to lifelong learning and pursuing Christ both personally and vocationally.

Learn more at https://www.biola.edu/torrey