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The Senior Honors Program

To earn the Senior Honors Certificate, Honors students can choose the Thesis Option or the Contract Option. The Contract Option requires a specified number of contract courses: upper-level courses related to the student's major with an added Honors component. Students selecting the thesis option take reading/thesis courses under the direction of a faculty member in the student's major and write a thesis. Completing an undergraduate thesis is a significant achievement that is noted by admission committees for graduate and professional schools. 

To receive the Senior Honors Certificate under the Thesis Option,  the student must

  1. maintain a 3.2 unadjusted overall GPA,

  2. complete at least 3 hours in the Honors Readings course or in contract courses in the major curriculum (3000-level or above), and

  3. complete the Honors Thesis course.

Some curricula require a senior project or thesis, which may form the basis for the Honors Thesis.

For the Contract Option, the student must

  1. maintain an 3.2 unadjusted overall GPA and

  2. complete 4 contract courses (at least 12 hours) in the major  curriculum (3000-level or above).