College Honors Program

The College Honors Program is open to a limited number of highly qualified students who wish to combine advanced work in their major with a broader range of serious intellectual interests. Participating students meet in colloquia during their junior and senior years, enroll in at least two specially designed Honors Seminars (each limited to 10 students) in areas outside their major, and devote one-fourth of their time in their senior year preparing a comprehensive thesis based on a directed research project, usually in their major field. Biology majors doing a laboratory based Honors Thesis should enroll in Biology 207, 208: Honors Research in Biology. These courses count toward the requirements of the major. Otherwise the thesis work is registered through the Center for Interdisciplinary and Special Studies. The Honors Thesis is prepared with the guidance of a faculty adviser and one or two faculty readers. It is presented orally at the end of the year (often in the context of the Undergraduate Research Symposium) and as a formal paper.

To be selected for the Honors Program, the student must apply to the Director of the Honors Program (press to send email to the Honors Program Office) in the spring of sophomore year. The application includes a statement of student interest in and qualification for such study.

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