Undergraduate Program

Honors Program

To qualify for honors in Psychology, a student must have a grade point average of at least 3.0 (B) in the College and a 3.5 average in the concentration.
Students who wish to pursue honors should arrange to write an honors paper with a faculty sponsor from the Psychology Department. Papers must represent a more substantial project than the average term paper. After the paper has been approved by the faculty sponsor, the paper must then be read and approved by a second faculty member.
Students who wish to pursue honors are required to take an Honors Seminar (Psyc 29800) in the Winter Quarter of their junior or senior year, as one of the three possible research courses. It is expected that students will be actively working on the thesis project during the quarter they take the honors research seminar.
Students pursuing honors are required to present their findings at an "Honors Day" celebration which will be held late in the spring of the senior year.

Students are expected to work closely with their faculty advisors throughout all stages of the project.
By the end of Winter Quarter (or the quarter prior to completing the thesis), the student should submit a partial draft of the thesis to the advisor, and the advisor should return comments in a timely fashion (usually within a week).
By the middle of Spring Quarter (or the quarter in which the thesis is to be completed), the student should submit a complete draft of the thesis to the advisor, and the advisor should return comments in a timely fashion.
Students experiencing difficulty in this process should contact either the instructor of the Honors Seminar or Anne Henly, the head of the undergraduate major.