Discipline-Specific Honors
English
The Honors Program for the English major is intended to offer outstanding students the opportunity to engage in certain kinds of advanced, academically challenging projects that they might not have the occasion to encounter in the standard English curriculum. The program involves two elements: a) English honors students will contract to perform honors work in four upper- level English courses; and b) they will write an honors thesis in lieu of the standard senior thesis. The honors thesis will build upon previous work undertaken in upper-level English courses, including work done for honors contracts.
2025-26 Catalogue: Major in English with DSH
Spanish or Applied Linguistics
The Honors program in Languages offers outstanding students the opportunity to engage in advanced, academically rigorous research and writing projects that expand upon the breadth and depth of the standard curricular offerings in Spanish and Applied Linguistics. Honors students will contract to perform honors work, to be defined by a collaboration between the student and the professor, in four upper-division courses in the major. The specific courses involved are delineated below according to their respective major. The fourth of these courses will be an intensive research course focused on developing the honors thesis, which will be a synthesizing paper that builds upon the research focus developed in the prior honors courses.
2025-26 Catalogue: Major in Spanish or Applied Linguistics with DSH