Departmental Honors in Psychology
The Psychology Department established a Departmental Honors program to provide academically superior undergraduates with opportunities for greater depth of study and independent research in psychology.
The Psychology Departmental Honors program is open to psychology majors who have a minimum accumulative GPA of 3.50 and a GPA of 3.50 or better in psychology courses.
Interested students should apply for departmental honors during the beginning of their junior year. Application is made to the Assistant Chair for Undergraduate Studies, who will suggest faculty members as possible honors advisers on the basis of the student's interests. The final choice of an honors adviser is left to the student and must be made before the student begins the honors thesis.
Requirements
General requirements for all students enrolled in the Psychology Departmental Honors are the following:
- All requirements for the psychology major must be fulfilled.
- Psychology 3110 must be completed.
- The following courses, which may be used to satisfy Arts & Sciences area requirements and/or General Education requirements, must be completed:
- English Composition: Any junior-level English course with a J suffix, such as ENG3060J, 3070J, 3080J, or 3090J.
- Ethics: Any Philosophy course on ethics, such as PHIL1300, PHIL3300, or PHIL3310, or a Tier III or Tier III-equivalent ethics course that has been approved by the Undergraduate Chair from any other department.
- Philosophy of Science: Any Philosophy course on science or psychology, such as PHIL2160, PHIL2500, PHIL4120, or PHIL4160.
- Computer Science: Any Computer Science course at the 2000-level or higher or ET 2100.
- An honors thesis must be completed and approved. The completed thesis is to be presented in both oral and written form to a committee composed of the student's honors adviser and at least two other members of the Psychology Department chosen by the student and the honors adviser. One of the other members of the thesis committee must be a faculty member, and the other may be either a faculty member or a post-master's graduate student. At least two members of the committee must approve the thesis. The thesis is expected to be empirical research and is to be planned and carried out under the dire