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The Alonim Honors Program

BA in Behavioral Sciences

The Alonim Honors Program of the Department of Behavioral Studies is a distinctive program designed for outstanding students with an interest in research and great personal potential who are in the second and third year of studies in the department.

The goal of the program is to provide the students with tools to develop multidisciplinary, pioneering, and distinctive thinking. Thanks to these tools, the students can be pioneers in research and practical fields in the areas in which they choose to work or study in the future. In addition, the program’s vision is to bring together academia and the community to education a generation of citizens that is committed to excellence and actively contributing to the community in which they live.

The program is based on an approach that sees the integration of disciplines of knowledge as the route to innovation both in research and on the personal level. As a result, the program integrates academic, research, and practical aspects with a multidisciplinary outlook and offers a special framework whose purpose is to encourage original thinking, curiosity, and a multidisciplinary mindset in research along with entrepreneurship and contributing to society and the community.
The three main areas upon which the program focuses are:

  • Research: Deepening knowledge through practical, hands-on research experience.
  • Academic-theoretical: Broadening knowledge via interdisciplinary exposure beyond the foundations of behavioral sciences.
  • Involvement and contribution to society: Demonstrating the reciprocity between academic and the community through activities to contribute to the community.

The program emphasizes the interaction between the community and students and considers it important that students on one hand receive extensive enrichment and close guidance as they contribute and on the other hand, give back to the community through meaningful social activities. The students in the program are guided by faculty members from the Department of Behavioral Sciences, who serve as mentors in the Young Researchers project in the second year of studies, among other activities.