Honors

Honors

Honors

Students who have excelled in their English courses are encouraged to write an Honors thesis over the course of their senior year, typically on an area or author familiar to them from their previous coursework. Under the direction of a faculty member who has expertise in their chosen subject, they embark on an extensive research or writing program in the fall semester and complete a substantive essay or piece of creative writing in the spring. Students are then required to defend their work before the department late in the semester. In this way, they become adept in an area of particular interest to them and experience the joys and tribulations of producing a serious, extensive, and original piece of writing.

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