Honors College @ UTA: The Honors Senior Project

What is the Honors Senior Project?

The Honors Senior Project completes your Honors degree. The project is a prized academic milestone, signifying a great amount of research and organization of thought. While the project will serve as a remarkable personal achievement, it will also provide evidence—to graduate school admissions committees, scholarship review boards, and prospective employers—that you have the intellectual maturity to pursue independent academic endeavors. The Honors College allows each department up to five options for completing the Senior Project, and students should be sure to consult an Honors advisor to learn which options are allowed for their major. All options require a detailed proposal, a substantial written product, and an oral presentation.
The Options

Thesis / Creative Activity This option offers students the opportunity to complete sustained original research, group project, or creative activity. Their work is expected to meet the scholarly standards of the discipline and the Honors College. Go to the Thesis/Creative Activity option page... Study Abroad Students spend at least one semester abroad and negotiate with their major advisor on appropriate coursework that can be applied to their degree. Students submit a final written project that documents their experience and how it applies to their future goals. Go to the Study Abroad option page... Internship Students work with a departmental mentor to develop an internship experience consonant with their educational goals. Go to the Internship option page... Service Learning Students work with a departmental mentor to pursue a service learning experience appropriate to their educational goals and professional aspirations. Go to the Service Learning option page...
Forms

All of the Senior Project options use the same Proposal Form. You can download it, and other helpful information, here in Adobe PDF (Download the latest Adobe Acrobat Reader). File: Senior Project Proposal Form (Adobe PDF) File: Senior Project Checklist (Adobe PDF) File: How To Write Your Project Proposal (Adobe PDF) File: Senior Project Final Approval form (Adobe PDF)
Resources

Link: Collection of policies concerning the Senior Project options. Link: Schedule of workshops about the senior project. They repeat each semester. Link: Having your Senior Project bound.