Requirements and Deadlines from the University Committee on Honors

Date: November 2, 2009
To: The Faculty, all Seniors, Juniors
From: The University Committee on Honors
Subject: Honors in Independent Study

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This memorandum is intended especially for seniors undertaking honors projects in 2009-2010, juniors who may be considering doing honors projects in 2010–11, and faculty advisors. It contains essential information about requirements and deadlines for those intending to submit an honors thesis next spring. Additional information about Honors in Independent Study may be found at the Honors Committee website at: http://www.lawrence.edu/committee/honors/.

The Honors Committee will continue this year two programs designed to assist students working on Honors projects.

1. Fall Honors Roundtable:
   The Committee will host an informational roundtable for students currently writing Honors projects on Monday, November 9 at 4:30 pm in Mudd Library, room 401. All students working on Honors projects are strongly encouraged to attend. Juniors who may be interested in working on projects in the future are also welcome. Students writing Honors projects who are unable to attend the fall roundtable should contact Prof. Powell via email for information about a second roundtable to be scheduled in the winter term.
2. On-line Summaries of Projects-in-Progress:
   In order to increase the availability of information about Honors projects, the Committee would like to post brief descriptions of projects currently in progress on its website. Students who are working on Honors projects this year are asked to send to Prof. Powell at their earliest convenience a brief description of their project (100-200 words). Posting a description of the project on the website does not in any way commit a student to completing a project. Please note also that this brief description does not take the place of the official statement of intent to file an Honors project. That statement of intent must still be submitted to Prof. Powell at the start of the spring term.

Guidelines and Deadlines for Honors in Independent Study

A student who expects to submit a thesis for honors in independent study must file a written statement of intent on a form that can be obtained from the Reference Desk in the Library and from the Committee web site. The form must be signed by the student and the faculty member who will serve as the student's project advisor and submitted to the Chair of the Committee, Prof. Powell, in the Mudd Library, by 3 p.m. on Friday, April 2, 2010. No thesis will be considered for honors in independent study unless this statement of intent is filed, though filing the statement does not obligate the student to submit a thesis.

Four copies of the thesis must be registered with Prof. Antoinette Powell in the Lawrence Library by 3 p.m., Tuesday, May 11, 2010. These copies must be carefully proofread and free of typographical errors and misspellings, and all quotations and references should be checked for both accuracy and proper format. The copies will be promptly returned to the student for distribution to the members of the examining committee and the representative of the Committee on Honors by noon of the following day. In scheduling the oral examination, please keep in mind that each of these members must receive a copy at least 48 hours in advance of the scheduled oral examination.

Following the oral examination and no later than 3 p.m., Friday, June 4, 2010, a good clean copy of the thesis must be submitted to Prof. Powell for the Library collection. This copy must be bound in a two-hole hard cover and must otherwise conform to a style and format that is acceptable and standard in the discipline of the study. (Three ring binders, commercial binding, and plastic-fingered binding are unacceptable.)

The Committee on Honors will grant an extension on these deadlines only for causes beyond the student's control and upon receipt of a written petition endorsed by the project advisor. Inquiries about extensions should be directed to the Chair of the Committee, Prof. Powell, well in advance of the deadlines. The Committee strongly urges advisors to keep their students conscious of the importance of each of the deadlines.

Four copies of the thesis, the final library copy of the thesis and all other forms, statements, and reports must be submitted to Antoinette Powell, Chair of the Honors Committee, in the Mudd Library. Students planning to submit an honors thesis during the second term of this year should contact Prof. Powell immediately

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