Honors Program in Philosophy
We encourage majors to take the Departmental honors program in their senior
year if they feel they have adequate background for relatively independent work.
Outstanding students who wish to enroll in the honors program should apply to
the Departmental Honors Committee. Students need a 3.3 GPA to be admitted to
the program and must meet other requirements discussed in the Bulletin
of the College of Arts and Sciences.
The normal program requires P498 Senior Seminar and P499 Honors Thesis. To
receive an honors degree, the student must present a thesis judged acceptable
by the honors committee.
If you are interested, here is the procedure to follow:
- Consider the general area in which you would like to write an honors thesis.
- Let the honors director know you want to be an honors major. (The Director
of Undergraduate Studies is also the Philosophy Honors Director.)
- Approach a professor in that area about being your director.
- Select at least one other member to fill out your faculty honors committee.
- Have your director set up a research program for P498.
- Have a writing timetable for P499 as the semester ends in which you are
taking P498.
- An oral defense of the thesis is to be scheduled with the committee.
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