Major Requirements for Students Pursuing Latin Honors
None
HCOL 3101H or HCOL 3102H
In a traditional capstone project, students complete a 15-page research paper, which is normally based on a topic that was studied in another course prior to the semester of the capstone's completion. Students work with a professor who is a specialist in the subject area of interest, and expand on a shorter paper or project that was completed in another course. Note that students who are double-majors in CLA may request a waiver of the senior/capstone project if they are completing a project in a different CLA major. Honors-thesis projects differ in scope and length compared to a non-Honors capstone project. In a traditional Honors thesis, papers will be longer and therefore will necessarily involve greater depth in exploring the topic.
Theses at the cum laude level will be 20-30 pages; magna is 25-35 pages. Summa theses require a paper of 30-to-40 pages in length and an oral defense of the thesis with the full committee.