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Proposal to Create an
Honors-in-the-Major Program
The Department of Political Science proposes the following honors-in-the-major program. The program is designed to provide high achieving students with an opportunity for academic enrichment. The program meets the requirements set forth in 3.1-5 of the Honors Curriculum Manual.
The Honors Program
The Honors Program consists of an Honors Seminar and a Senior Thesis. Students enroll in POS 4300 (Honors Seminar) in the fall of their senior year. The Honors Seminar is a three credit hour advanced research design seminar. The Honors Seminars primary objective is to teach students how to conduct political science research. The Seminar is designed so that students will learn how to research while studying a specified political science topic or topics. The Seminar prepares students to conduct their own research by completing a Senior Thesis.
Students who receive a minimum grade of A-minus in the Honors Seminar enroll in POS 4970(Senior Thesis) for three credits in the spring of their senior year. Students enroll with the professor who sponsored their admission to the honors program. Students may, with the instructors and departments permission, substitute a graduate seminar for the required Honors Seminar. Students must present their senior thesis at a department or university research event and receive a minimum grade of A- to graduate with a degree in Political Science with honors. Completion of the Political Science Honors program requires receiving a minimum grade of A-minus for the Honors Seminar and the Senior Thesis.
Admission to the Honors Program
Normally, students apply for admission to the honors program in the spring of their junior year at Դɼ. A student must meet the following requirements for admission to the honors program:
A minimum overall GPA of 3.2.
A minimum overall Political Science GPA of 3.5, including the three courses mentioned below.
Completion of the three required courses for majors:
POS 2041 (Government of the USA)
CPO 3003 (Comparative Politics)
POS 3703 (Research Methods)
Completion of at least 25 credit hours of 3000 & 4000 level Political Science coursework.
Submission of a statement of purpose to the Department of Political Science.
Submission to the Department of Political Science of a sponsor letter from a Political Science faculty member stating that he or she will supervise the students honors research.
Honors-level Enrichment
The Honors Seminar is not merely a small enrollment class that requires students to a little more work than the students in regular classes. It is designed to provide honors enrichment by engaging students in political science research. The Seminar also provides students with the opportunity interactive learning through collaboration, peer review, and student-directed classroom work. The Honors Seminar and the Senior Thesis meet the requirements of Section 2 of the Honors Curriculum Manual for honors courses.
The Honors Seminar will be taught by a tenured or tenure-track faculty member with a terminal degree.
The Honors Seminar emphasizes the development of written and oral communication skills. Written communication skills are developed by close reading and analysis of relevant scholarship as well as peer review and instructor review of multiple drafts of student work.
The Honors Seminar teaches critical and creative thinking through assignments that require students to develop a theory chapter for the Senior Thesis, require students to recognize the assumptions underlying the theory and to evaluate alternative perspectives on the research subject, and require students to analyze detailed information on a topic.
The Honors Seminar and the Senior Thesis provide students with opportunities for independent research. The Seminar requires students to do research and prepares them for the collaborative process of writing a senior thesis. Students develop a theory, identify sources of data and scholarship, evaluate the quality of data, write a literature review, and engage in peer review of research.
Students choose a Senior Thesis topic that allows them to apply theories and principles to real life political science problems. The Honors Seminar emphasizes the development of a theoretical foundation for the Senior Thesis and the importance of relating research to political science theories.
The Honors Program requires both independent and collaborative work. Students collaborate with their peers and with their faculty mentors. The multi-stage review of student work in the Seminar and during the writing of the Senior Thesis will develop collaborative skills.
The Honors Seminar requires classroom presentations and the Senior Thesis must be formally presented at a research event. Both requirements ensure that the work of the honors students will be evaluated by other scholars.
The capstone requirements for honors-in-the-major programs are fulfilled by requiring students to complete the Senior Thesis. The Senior Thesis component of the honors program meets the Honors Curriculum Manual requirements. The following criteria will be used to determine whether a thesis meets the standard of honors-level enrichment of the undergraduate experience. First, the thesis must use an appropriate method of inquiry. Second, the thesis must be an appropriate length for the subject of the research paper or project. Third, the thesis will require in-depth research on a topic rather than a general survey or overview of an issue. Fourth, the thesis will be subject to multi-stage review and the supervising faculty member will provide advice and feedback at various stages of the research project. Fifth, the thesis will demonstrate significantly greater originality than is required for a research paper or project in other political science courses. Originality will be evaluated by the methods of research, whether the thesis gathered original data, whether it used original sources, the substantive contribution to the state of knowledge in the discipline, and the extent of the analysis.
The thesis will be supervised by a faculty member, approved by the faculty member, and presented and defended at a departmental or university level research presentation day.
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