Applied Economics

Major Requirements for Students Pursuing Latin Honors

Common Honors Courses in Major

APEC 1101H - Principles of Microeconomics
MATH 1571H: Honors Calculus I
COMM 1101H - Honors Introduction to Public Speaking
WRIT 3562V - Honors Technical and Professional Writing 
GCC 3017 - World Food Problems: Agronomics, Economics and Hunger
GCC 5008 - Policy and Science of Global Environmental Change

Required Thesis Course

CFAN 3091V, intended for Fall of Junior Year (beginning Fall 2023)

Capstone Considerations

None

Thesis Requirements

Thesis Requirements for an Empirical Paper: A magna or cum laude thesis would be a proposal for an empirical research project with a complete literature review, a research question, and a description of how to answer the question. A summa thesis must follow this up by completing the empirical work.

Thesis Requirements for a Theoretical Paper: A magna or cum laude thesis would be a proposal for a theory project, with a literature review, a research question, and an outline of how the student would answer the question. A summa thesis would have to set up and solve an actual model.

Plan C Thesis Options
  • An honors student can choose to pursue non-paper honors thesis. This could be any original work using other media to disseminate research findings, such as developing a website or a documentary or designing and disseminating an infographic about an issue. Students wishing to pursues a non-paper thesis will need to seek prior approval from his/her honors committee. The honors committee will create a formal agreement with the student about what will constitute an acceptable non-paper thesis, and, if applicable, the standards for a summa thesis.
  • At a minimum, a non-paper thesis must include the following: a well-defined problem, sound methodology, solid data, a well-targeted audience
  • Some non-paper options will also necessitate a process or background paper in which students describe how they designed and carried out the project. The student’s honors committee will decide when this is required. For example, a documentary is a substantial amount of work on its own and would typically not require an accompanying process paper. An infographic or artwork is less self-explanatory, and the final product may not readily exemplify the amount of effort involved, so a process paper would usually be needed.
  • The honors committee will create a formal agreement with the student about what will constitute an acceptable non-paper thesis, and, if applicable, the standards for a summa thesis.

Honors Faculty Representative Info

Faculty Rep
Charlotte Ambrozek
Office
217F Ruttan Hall