Discipline Specific Honors in History
A student must do all of the following in order to earn discipline-specific honors in history:
- Meet the history department's admission requirements for its honors program;
- Complete as a part of the 36-hour requirement for the history
major:
- Honors contracts in two upper-level, content-based
courses:
- The courses must be regularly scheduled classes or directed studies; no independent studies will be allowed;
- The courses must be taken either during the fall or spring semester;
- The courses must be taken from two separate history professors;
- The student must have a minimum 3.5 GPA for the two classes.
- Honors contracts in two courses (HIS 497, HIS 498)
that focus on the student's honors thesis:
- The student must take an independent study (HIS 497) to launch the honors thesis project;
- The student must take a directed-study senior seminar (HIS 498) to complete the honors thesis;
- The student must earn a final grade of A in both HIS 497 and HIS 498.
- The student must complete the honors thesis by the end of the fall semester of his/her senior year (based on the assumption that the student will graduate at the conclusion of the spring semester that immediately follows).
- Honors contracts in two upper-level, content-based
courses:
- Present his/her honors thesis in an abridged form at an acceptable history conference.
- Defend successfully his/her honors thesis before a committee of three full-time Union University professors, two of whom will be from the Department of History.
- Satisfy in their junior and senior years Honors colloquium requirements as determined and published by the directors of the Honors Community.