Honors
Honors
Thesis Requirements
A student who has and will maintain an A/B average or better in the courses offered in the English major may at the end of the junior year decide to become an Honors candidate and as such will during the senior year prepare an Honors Thesis (at the 400 level) under tutorial supervision.
A definitive plan for the Honors Thesis must be presented by the student to the member of the department within whose field the project falls, preferably in the spring of the candidate's junior year so that the work can begin in the fall semester of his/her senior year. Honors candidates should obtain the signature of the project director directly on their registration card for fall semester, and again for spring semester. The honors work shall be graded and may count (at the 400 level) as one or two of the elective course units required for the major.
The Honors Thesis shall in general be a thorough and sophisticated literary essay growing out of
- a course paper, as an expansion of it (in which case it may do double duty only with the consent of the instructors involved)
- an English course
- an extension of such a course, or
- a fresh subject not explored in another connection.
Strict compliance with the directions for manuscript preparation as specified by the library, where the original copy will be permanently filed, is required. Any student contemplating application to graduate school should be advised that honors, or even candidacy for honors, is a highly significant element of his/her record.