Departmental Honors provides an opportunity for students to challenge themselves academically by engaging in advanced individual scholarly activity in their major.
It is designated as a 499 class in your major, and you work one-on-one with a faculty supervisor to undertake an honors project approipraite to the field. This can be done over two or three semesters. The specific content of the project is determined by the student and faculty supervisor. Research studies are appropriate for all disciplines, but the project may consist of other types of scholarly activitiy appropriate to the academic discipline.
In all cases, the result is a six credit senior thesis and an oral defense of the thesis. Students who successfully complete the honors work and have at least a 3.2 GPA at the time of graduation on all college work attempted will graduate with Honors in their major.
Resources for Departmental Honors
Now that you are Enrolled in Honors Worksheet (for those in their first semester)
Finishing your Project Worksheet (for those in their last semester)
