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Honors Program — Projects
The honors project is the cumulative experience of the Honors Program, and if successful, it is an experience that provides a distinctive culmination of the student's experience in the academic program and in the university as a whole.
The goal of the project is to provide a setting for the student to explore a topic of interest — most likely within the student's major program of study, though not in all cases — and to pursue, through the methods appropriate to the discipline, answers to a significant question of interest to the student and to the field of study.
Another purpose of the honors project is to provide a venue for the honors student to have an academic experience that is distinct from that of the typical undergraduate and offer a sense of what advanced graduate study in the discipline is like, should the student be considering such pursuits. Similarly, the honors project should distinguish future graduates in the discipline from other students to prepare them more effectively for entry into the careers for which their programs are preparing them.
Students who complete the honors project will do so, most often, in three consecutive semesters, usually beginning during the spring semester of their junior year. In certain occasions, students may require four semesters to complete the project (particularly those students who wish to conduct research involving human subjects).
In rare occasions, students will skip a semester for individual reasons and not register for a credit hour during one of the four semesters. In other occasions, students will not earn credits during their final semester as seniors because of student teaching or other significant internship commitments.
All the senior projects produced by the 2009 Honors Program graduates are available for download as a PDF file. The following are examples of senior projects prepared by students representative of their major:
