Spanish Studies

Honors students should meet with the Director of Undergraduate Studies, who serves as the Department's Honors Faculty Representative, to discuss the honors capstone in Spanish Studies before they begin their final two semesters at the University. The Director of Undergraduate Studies will provide them with the names of faculty members who have expertise in the students’ area of interest for the Honors thesis and who are available to serve as their initial thesis advisor. In their penultimate semester, students who declared a Spanish Studies major in Fall 2022 or later should enroll in a 3-credit Directed Research course (Span 3994) with a faculty member who has expertise related to the topic of their thesis. (Note: This step is optional for students who declared their Spanish Studies major prior to Fall 2022.) During that semester, students will develop their thesis statement or research questions, read extensively, and begin data collection (if relevant). By the end of the semester, they should have completed the first third of the thesis. During their final semester, students should enroll in Span 3972V Honors Graduate Seminar. They will be guided by the faculty member who teaches that course and will continue to consult with the faculty member who they worked with during the previous semester and who will serve as the thesis co-advisor (together with the instructor of Span 3972V).