The Honors Project

The Honors Project serves as a capstone course for the Honors Program. Students develop their own project and choose a faculty member from their area of interest to supervise the project. The topics of Honors projects can range from working on a scientific or social science study, to independently researching an area of interest, or to creating a work of art or literature.  Students may work independently on the project, may work with a professor on a larger research project, or may collaborate with another honors student.

Some recent Honors Projects include:

• The Rich and Poor “Second Generations” in China
  
• Computer Technology and Film Making
  
• Symbolism and the Short Stories of Katherine Mansfield
  
• Body Image and the American Woman
  
• What Really Happened to GM’s EV1 (Electric Vehicles)
  
• Measuring Depression in Young Children
  
• The Validity of Sports Statistics
  
• Romantic Art and “The Raft of the Medusa”
  
• Emotions in Animals
  
• The Jane Austen Project: A One Act Play
• Empathic Responding in Pre-School Children