Departmental honors

 

Departmental honors projects offer the opportunity for independent study in a topic of the student's choosing. Completed departmental honors projects have included research papers, art shows, children's books and novels.

First, students develop a proposal for the project under the direction of a sponsoring faculty member. This proposal is taken to a faculty committee. When approved, the student begins work on their honors project, meeting periodically with their faculty sponsor. Students earn between 5-7 semester hours of credit spread over at least two semesters.

Four departmental honors projects were approved by faculty in 2010. Find out more about each project below.

English honors
Angie Huston      
History major
   Katy (Haman) Humphreys
Communication major
Thea Bilowich     
Religion major
    Judah Weinhardt

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Christy Rupp '10 Christy Rupp '10 I would encourage others to take on the added challenge of honors classes because the extra challenge leads to smaller class sizes and more 1-on-1 time with the professor.