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Honors Carolina is a four-year academic program geared toward the top 10 percent of undergraduates at UNC and promises those students a guided journey toward a successful career and purposeful life. It is the University's way of investing in truly exceptional students by providing academic and non-academic challenges and opportunities, both inside and outside the classroom.
From the moment they step foot on campus, our students join a diverse community of scholars and friends. Approximately 2,100 students are currently members of Honors Carolina, and enjoy access to more than 200 small courses, award-winning faculty, and priority registration. Our unparalleled commitment to global learning offers students a doorway to the world through courses, internships, and research for academic credit.
The Honors Carolina "Go Anywhere" initiative is a comprehensive plan to elevate the program's reputation among industry leaders, position it as a destination of choice for top recruiters, and prepare students to seize opportunities before them through intensive advising and coaching. In fact, our academic advisors, career coaches, and alumni mentors are with students every step of the way. Through a diverse roster of co-curricular programs, students explore their interests; prepare for life after graduation; and connect with students, faculty, alumni, and leaders around the globe. Some enrolling first-year students are invited to participate immediately in Honors Carolina. Other students may apply to the program at the beginning of their second semester or first year of study. Details of the application process are available on the Honors Carolina website. Honors Carolina students must maintain a cumulative grade point average of 3.000 or higher and complete a minimum number of honors credit hours by graduation in order to receive the “Honors Carolina Laureate” distinction on their transcript.
To graduate from the University with honors or highest honors , students must complete a senior thesis in their academic major. Senior honors thesis programs are offered in nearly 50 departments, curricula, and professional schools throughout the University. Interested students should consult with the honors advisor in their major about department-specific requirements.
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Celebrating Honors Thesis Students
With all that has been happening this semester, we wanted to make sure that we took a moment to give credit to ECL’s amazing honors thesis students. These students, in their final year, worked to produce roughly 35-80 pages of original research into a topic of their choosing.
While we are unable to recognize these students in person, we congratulate these students and their advisors!
Please read more about these students here .
Below is the list of students, their theses, and their directors. These theses will all eventually be housed in the university library system. The list is as follows:
Alexandria Morgan Andrews, “‘A perilous and terrible medicine’: Milton and the Problem of Divorce in Protestant England,” dir. Reid Barbour
John Collier Cobb, “Consciousness and Natureculture: Tracing Dualisms in To the Lighthouse and Between the Acts,” dir. Pamela Cooper
Jack Crouse, “Dramatic Censorship and the Children of the Blackfriars, 1603-1608,” dir. David Baker
Julia Alden Glass, “Artistic Practice and Mental Illness in Film,” dir. Martin Johnson and Rick Warner
Lenore Harrison, “Virginia Woolf’s Language of Gothic Fiction in The Voyage Out and Between the Acts,” dir. Pamela Cooper
Suiyun Pan (David), “Homer’s Helen and Bai Juyi’s Yuhuan: Beauty, Subjectivity, and Ethics,” dir. Li-ling Hsiao and Shayne Legassie
Elizabeth Fletcher Garland Rieman, “The Ultimate Adventure: Exploring the Religious Roots and Gender Politics of Victorian Era Children’s Adventure Fiction,” dir. Kimberly Stern
Shawna Sheperd, “Space and Psychology in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette,” dir. Kimberly Stern
McKenzie Marie Taranto, “Star Trek: The Next Interpretation; Changing Notions of American Citizenship in The Original Series,” dir. Sarah Boyd
Graham Lockwood Weaver, “Authorship and Accountability: Bakhtinian Authorial Presence in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!, and Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita,” dir. Eric Downing and Stanislav Shvabrin
Sarah White, “Women and Children First: The Complexity of Societal Change in Dracula and NOS4A2,” dir. Guillermo Rodríguez-Romaguera
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Many Carolina students cap their undergraduate experience with a Senior Honors Thesis, partnering with a faculty mentor to develop original research or creative work. Students who successfully defend their theses before a faculty review panel graduate with Honors or Highest Honors.
Students may undertake a Senior Honors Thesis project only in their major field of study (with an exception for students who minor in Creative Writing). Students with double majors may graduate with Honors or Highest Honors in both fields of study. To do so, they must complete a distinct project in each field. All Senior Honors Thesis projects must be completed under the direct supervision of a faculty advisor. Tenured and tenure-track faculty, retired faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and fixed-term faculty appointed for more than a single year may serve as thesis advisors. Graduate students may not serve as advisors for Senior Honors Thesis projects.
Eligibility
Students who wish to undertake a Senior Honors Thesis project must have a cumulative GPA of 3.300 or higher. Academic departments may set higher thresholds for course work within students’ major field of study.
Honors Thesis Research Awards
Honors Carolina offers financial awards to support Senior Honors Thesis research. These awards, up to $500, may be used to cover any legitimate cost directly connected to a thesis project: laboratory equipment and supplies, computer software and hardware, travel, artistic supplies, books and periodicals not available through normal library sources, illustrations and duplication, etc.
Students must apply through their major department’s honors director or their faculty thesis advisor (for units without Honors directors). A Call for Proposals is sent to departments early each semester. Students may not submit applications directly to Honors Carolina .
Deadlines and application forms are here .
Reporting Deadlines
Students completing honors theses in the fall semester.
2nd Monday in November (4:00pm) Reporting forms and instructions will be sent to departmental honors advisors on September 1
Students Completing Honors Theses in spring semester
2nd Monday in April (4:00pm) Reporting forms and instructions will be sent to departmental honors advisors on February 1
Deadlines for specific semesters are here .
Students are required to upload the final version of their thesis to the Carolina Digital Repository by the final day of class in the semester in which they complete the thesis course work. Detailed instructions are included in the guidelines below.
Reporting Form
Helpful Resources
- Senior Honors Thesis Guidelines for Academic Units, Faculty Advisors, and Students
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- Sample Senior Honors Thesis title page
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The North Carolina Collection in Wilson Library has paper copies of MOST UNC Chapel Hill theses and dissertations, including many of those from Health Affairs, and also the only copies of some pre-1930 dissertations and theses. The NCC's copies do not circulate and are not in an area open for browsing. You can assume that the NCC will probably have a copy of a UNC-Chapel Hill dissertation or thesis even if the catalogs do not reveal this.
Davis Library has circulating copies of many theses and dissertations completed at UNC-Chapel Hill. The Health Sciences Library has copies of the theses and dissertations completed in Health Affairs departments. Some dissertations and theses are also located in the Library Service Center and can be requested through the Carolina BLU Campus Delivery Service . Most UNC-Chapel Hill theses and dissertations can be found in the online catalog .
- Dissertation - Presents original research and is written as part of the requirements for obtaining a doctorate.
- Thesis - Presents original research and is written as part of the requirements for obtaining a master's degree.
- Master's Paper - Some master's programs at UNC do not have an official "thesis" but rather require a major paper or report.
- Undergraduate Honors Thesis - Written and defended by Honors Carolina undergraduate students in order to graduate with Honors or Highest Honors.
The Carolina Digital Repository also provides access to digital copies of theses and dissertations completed at UNC-Chapel Hill. It is an open-access source that houses user-submitted theses and dissertations and also other works by instructors and researchers affiliated with UND-Chapel Hill. However, as it houses works besides theses and dissertation and is relatively new, it may not pull up older works.
- ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global Indexes US dissertations from 1861 with full text available from 1997; masters theses covered selectively including some full text. Citations for dissertations from 1980 include 350-word abstracts, while masters' theses from 1988 have 150-word abstracts. Selectively covers dissertations from Great Britain and other European universities for recent years. In addition to this database, the full text of the majority of UNC theses and dissertations from 2006, and all beginning in 2008, are freely available electronically from the UNC Library: Dissertations | Theses more... less... Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users. Coverage: 1861 to present
- Dissertations & Theses @ University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Dissertations & Theses@University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill provides indexing and some full text access to dissertations completed here at Chapel Hill and submitted to the Dissertations Abstracts database. more... less... Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users. Coverage: 1920s to present
Most UNC dissertations are in the UNC-CH catalog. If searching for a known author or title, searching the online catalog is the most efficient way to search: A sample search: title = "Chaucer's relative constructions"
You can also use the Boolean Search feature of the Advanced UNC-CH Catalog to perform Keyword Searches for UNC dissertations.
Conducting a Keyword Search for Dissertations
Although most dissertations are in the online catalog, dissertations before 1964 have no subject headings. Searching for key words in the titles will help get at "subjects" for these items. Do not use ONLY standard LC Subject Headings. Be creative with appropriate key words, synonyms, and variants as well.
You will be searching for "thesis phd or thesis ph d" , which will appear as a note in the catalog record. You can use subject headings, title words, an author's last name, etc., and add "and thesis phd or thesis ph d". It is advisable to enter the "phd" both ways because of spacing variations. A sample search:
shakespeare and (thesis phd or thesis ph d) and "north carolina"
However, as noted above, Dissertations & Theses is the most efficient way to search for dissertations on a topic. If you do search for dissertations in the online catalog, you should add "and north carolina" to try and weed out dissertations from other schools, but this can lead to false drops and omissions.
Finding Theses
While some theses may be found in Dissertations & Theses , thesis coverage is not nearly as comprehensive as dissertation coverage in that database.
Most UNC theses are in the UNC-CH catalog. If searching for a known author or title, searching the online catalog is the most efficient way to search. A sample search: title = Spenser and the diction of allegory : some uses of wordplay in the Faerie Queene
The online catalog does not offer an easy way to limit a subject search to master's theses. There is no group subject heading or subheading like "theses" for them. You can also use the Boolean Search feature of the Advanced UNC-CH Catalog to perform Keyword Searches for UNC theses.
Conducting a Keyword Search for Theses
Although most theses are in the online catalog, theses both before 1967 and after around 1990 have no subject headings. Searching for key words in the titles will help get at "subjects" for these items. Do not use ONLY standard LC Subject Headings. Be creative with appropriate key words, synonyms, and variants as well.
You will be searching for "thesis ma" or "thesis m a," which will appear as a note in the catalog record. You can use subject headings, title words, an author's last name, etc., and add "and thesis ma or thesis m a". It is advisable to enter the "ma" both ways because of spacing variations. A sample search:
shakespeare and (thesis ma or thesis m a) and "north carolina"
Finding Master's Papers
Some departments do not have an official thesis but instead require a major paper or report. These papers and reports are not in Davis Library or, for the most part, in the North Carolina Collection or the Libraries' online catalog. Some departments and departmental libraries have online lists. Contact the department, or, if there is one, the departmental library for information.
Environmental Sciences and Engineering Master's level students in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering can opt for one of four tracks: a Master of Science degree, which requires a thesis; and the Master of Science in Public Health, Master of Public Health, and Master of Science in Environmental Engineering, which require a technical report. Theses are uploaded as digital copies to the Graduate School, and technical reports are uploaded to the Carolina Digital Repository.
Public Administration Copies of the Master of Public Administration papers from 1976-1994 are in the North Carolina Collection . For copies of papers completed since 1994, contact the Manager of the Master of Public Administration Program (Knapp-Sanders Bldg., CB# 3330, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3330, Phone: 919-966-5381, Fax: 919-962-0654, Email Contact Form ).
UNC-Chapel Hill Master's Paper Collection Full-text copies of master's papers can be found:
- UNC-Chapel Hill Master's Paper Collection more... less... Access: No restrictions.
This database contains papers completed for the following departments:
- City & Regional Planning: Coverage from May 2002 - present
- Information & Library Science: Coverage from May 1999 - present*
- Maternal & Child Health: Coverage from December 2010 - present
- Public Health & Public Health Leadership: Coverage from August 2011 - present
*Print copies from 1963 - present are available in the SILS Library .
Finding Undergraduate Honors Theses
Undergraduate Honors Theses (through 2012) are in the North Carolina Collection. They can be found using the card catalog located in that collection or the online catalog. They do not have subject headings unless they are about North Carolina. They do not circulate. Some departmental libraries also have copies but these are also non-circulating. To determine if a copy of an honors thesis can be obtained, contact the North Carolina Collection .
Electronic Submission of Senior Honors Theses:
Beginning in Fall 2013, students will no longer submit paper copies of their senior honors theses for archiving in the North Carolina Collection in Wilson Library. Instead, they will submit theses electronically via the Carolina Digital Repository (CDR). Submissions are due by the last day of class in the semester in which students complete their theses. The University Library will catalog electronic theses and make them available to the public.
To find Undergraduate Honors Theses in the catalog you can also use the Boolean Search feature of the Advanced UNC-CH Catalog to perform Keyword Searches. Do a keyword search for "honors essay" (with quotation marks) and then limit your search results to "North Carolina Collection" using the "Location" category in the left-hand column. A sample search: shakespeare and "honors essay" – then limit to North Carolina Collection Remember that Honors Theses lack subject indexing, so Keyword principally searches title and author fields. A thesis about Shakespeare may not have Shakespeare in the title. You can also do a catalog search for a specific title or author if known. A sample search: title = Broken emblems : allusion, irony, and utility in David Jones' In parenthesis
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Honors Thesis
“What I enjoy most about completing an honors thesis is the ability to delve into a topic of my choosing; the freedom to study whatever I fancy, purely for the love of education. I highly enjoy my right to fill my own education with a topic I truly love. “
– Kelly Pope, Class of 2015
Senior honors thesis work is a specialized form of independent study that allows students to partner with a faculty advisor to complete an original and substantial research project. Many students consider this work to be the capstone of their undergraduate studies in their major department. Honors research proposals represent a serious commitment to extensive study and mastery of material, and should be developed in close consultation with the advisor. An honors thesis is usually a research paper; however, it may also take the form of a performance or film, as deemed appropriate by the student and his/her faculty advisor. All senior honors theses in the Department of Communication must include a written component, the scope and format of which will be determined by the project advisor.
Students who successfully complete and defend their honors theses will graduate under the designation “with honors” or “with highest honors.”
Eligibility
Students completing senior honors theses must have a cumulative GPA of at least a 3.300 at the beginning of, end of, and at all points during, the two semesters that they work on their projects.
An honors thesis involves two semesters of independent research for academic credit: COMM 693H in the fall of senior year and COMM 694H in the spring of senior year (or for students graduating in December: COMM 693H in the spring and COMM 694H in the fall semester immediately prior to graduation). Students who wish to begin work on their senior honors theses before this time may do so; however, they will not be able to begin earning academic credit until they are officially enrolled in the two-semester sequence as outlined above. Per University policy, students cannot be enrolled in senior honors thesis coursework during summer sessions.
Students completing the honors sequence will take a total of 6.0 credit hours (3.0 for COMM 693H and 3.0 for COMM 694H), which count towards elective credit for the major. Students should expect to devote a minimum of nine hours per week during both semesters of the honors sequence.
Thesis Advisor and Committee
Work on the honors thesis is done with mutual consent between the student and the faculty advisor. It is the responsibility of the student to seek out and find a faculty advisor. Faculty members are, generally, more willing to advise an honors thesis project when they have a prior relationship or experience with the student. Faculty members are also more willing to supervise a project if they have a professional interest in the project topic. Students are encouraged to begin conversations with a faculty member about honors thesis projects during their junior years. When approaching potential advisors, students should bring an outline of what they plan to do for their projects, as well as a brief explanation of why they are interested in pursuing an honors thesis.
Tenured and tenure-track faculty, postdoctoral fellows with teaching appointments, and fixed-term faculty who have been employed by COMM for at least one year may serve as senior honors thesis advisors. Advisors must have a permanent or adjunct appointment in the Communication Department. Graduate students may not serve as thesis advisors.
After finding an advisor, students need to assemble a committee of two or more faculty members, including the advisor, to evaluate the thesis work at the end of the honors sequence. While the faculty advisor is expected to work closely with the student, the committee members or “readers” are expected to read only a completed or nearly completed thesis and participate in the thesis defense.
Tenured and tenure-track faculty, retired faculty, postdoctoral fellows with teaching appointments, and fixed-term faculty who have been employed by an academic unit for at least one year may serve as committee members. Graduate students may not serve as members of Honors thesis committees. Members may be drawn from any academic unit at UNC-Chapel Hill or from another accredited college or university, as deemed appropriate and approved by the project advisor. Once assembled in consultation with the project advisor, the committee must be approved by the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
After finding a committee, students need to complete a Senior Honors Thesis Learning Contract that must be approved and signed by the student’s thesis advisor before the end of the last semester prior to the honors sequence (typically spring of their Junior year). The learning contract should include an outline of the scope and direction of the research, a schedule of meetings, readings, target dates for submitting interim chapters and/or reports for review, and course assessment information, as well as the expected date for the submission of a near-final copy of the thesis to be defended. A template for the learning contract can be found below.
The learning contract and committee membership must be approved by Director of Undergraduate Studies before the end of the semester prior to starting the thesis. Students should bring their learning contracts to the Student Services Manager in Bingham 117 who will submit them to the Director of Undergraduate Studies. Once the senior honors theses have been approved, the students will be notified and officially registered for COMM 693H for the upcoming semester. Each faculty advisor will be assigned a different section of COMM 693H.
At the end of the first semester of thesis work, the faculty advisors will submit grades for their students. Students and their advisors will also meet to discuss their progress. If at this time, an advisor deems a student’s progress insufficient to warrant continuation, the advisor will notify the student of this evaluation, and the student will discontinue work on the thesis, enrolling in a traditional course for the following semester, or, if the advisor is willing, continuing the project as an independent study project (COMM 396).
Students will automatically be enrolled in COMM 694H for the semester following COMM 693H, unless a student’s advisor specifies otherwise.
Research Funding
Honors Carolina offers financial awards to support senior honors thesis projects. There are two funding cycles per year, with deadlines announced by the Honors Carolina Office. Students must apply through their major academic unit’s honors director. Students may only apply for one round of funding.
Funding is also available through the Office for Undergraduate Research .
Upon completion of their projects, senior honors thesis students must pass an oral examination (thesis defense) or other appropriate form of evaluation. Students are responsible for making arrangements for their thesis defenses by discussing the date/time of the defense with all committee members and reserving necessary classroom/performance space and equipment. Students can contact the Student Services Assistant if they need assistance with reservations.
At a thesis defense, committee members will critically examine the student and his/her work. If the committee determines that the student has passed the thesis defense, they will designate the thesis as warranting the designation “with honors” or “with highest honors.”
Per departmental policy, highest honors can only be awarded to students who have met the most rigorous standards of scholarly excellence and who have a GPA of 3.50 or higher.
If a student or his/her thesis committee determines that the project does not warrant the designation of honors, the student will receive only course credit for the thesis work.
Electronic Submission
After successfully defending their theses, students must upload a scanned copy of their thesis cover page signed by their advisors and their entire thesis in PDF format to the Carolina Digital Repository . For detailed instructions, please visit the Honors Carolina website. Documents must be uploaded by the deadline as stated on the Honors Carolina website . Please contact the Student Services Assistant if you have any questions.
Recognition
Students who successfully complete a senior honors thesis project will have the designation “Honors” or “Highest Honors” printed beside their names in the Commencement bulletins and recorded on their diplomas and transcripts. At the Departmental Commencement Ceremony, students will be announced as “with honors” or “with highest honors” as they walk across the stage.
Students will also receive gold cords to wear at Commencement exercises. There is no charge for the cords, and students can pick them up from the Student Services Assistant.
Senior Honors Thesis Learning Contract Template (PDF)
Senior Honors Thesis Learning Contract Template (WORD)
Honors Carolina- Senior Honors Thesis – includes information on electronic submission, deadlines, and research grants
Office for Undergraduate Research
COMM Dept. Aggregate Policies: IS, Honors, Special Topics
Honors Thesis Database
Theses in bold received the Douglas Eyre Prize for Best Thesis.
| Author | Thesis Title |
|---|---|
| Katherine Angell | |
| Christina Boelkins | |
| Cailee Harrington | |
| Ludmila Leveque | |
| Tessa Mannell | |
| Anyanna Mayfield-Loomis | |
| Megan Murphy | |
| Author | Thesis Title |
|---|---|
| Cassandra Alvarino | |
| Megan Beacham | |
| Elizabeth Cummings | |
| Journey Dreyer | |
| Alexandra Durham | |
| Kamil Ewais-Orozco | |
| Erin Lee | |
| Jaya Mishra | |
| Mallory Sokolove | |
| Isabel Williams |
| Author | Thesis Title |
|---|---|
| Nazrawith Tibebu Alemayehu | |
| Maeve Cook | Expanding the Narrative of Democracy in Crisis: A Study of Brazil During the Coronavirus Pandemic |
| Courtney Halverson | |
| Yampiere Lugo-Acosta | |
| Svetlana Nesteruk | |
| Sarah Payne | |
| Madison Wiedeman |
| Author | Thesis Title |
|---|---|
| Elyse Armstrong | How North Carolina Nonprofit Organizations Foster Public Education Equity for Hispanic/Latinx Youth |
| Hannah Day | |
| Tatiana Farmer | |
| Kyende Kinoti | |
| Logan Pratico | |
| Tracey Spaugh | |
| Joy Stouffer | |
| Alli Whitenack |
| Author | Thesis Title |
|---|---|
| Amy Cohen | |
| Anna DeGrauw | |
| Lydia Field |
| Morgan Pratt | |
| Olivia Jackson-Jordan |
| Author | Thesis Title |
|---|---|
| Beeniga, Timber G. | |
| Lackey, Michael D. | |
| Strang, Alexis V. |
| Author | Thesis Title |
|---|---|
| Gooding, J. Thomas | |
| Khan, Sara Ali | |
| Zakin, Zoe Alyssa |
| Author | Thesis Title |
|---|---|
| Allyn, Danielle N. | |
| McCoy, Dinesh Keith | ‘Inclusive Development’: The Secular Framing Efforts of the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Role of Neoliberal Rhetoric |
| Quran, Layla | |
| Seymore, Aleksander H. | |
| Author | Thesis Title |
|---|---|
| Bur, Griffin | Amidst the Wonders We Have Made? On Some Reworkings of Marx’s Labor Theory of Value in the 20th Century and Their Political Implications |
| Hart, Abby | |
| Miller, Lindsay | |
| Steyl, Matt | |
| Stramm, Sophie | |
| Tobin, Jessica | ‘We Are Not Afraid’: An analysis of the Internet’s effect in challenging the regime in Russia, 2011–2014 |
| Whitfield, Emily |
| Author | Thesis Title |
|---|---|
| Dayal, Mitali | Unraveling the Web of Maternal Mortality: Addressing the interaction of Structural Violence and Maternal Mortality in Modern India |
| Hennings, Mattis | The Migration and Development Nexus: A Case Study of Jordan since the 1950s |
| Jost-Creegan, Kelsey | Constructing Migrants’ Rights: Shifting Paradigms and Human Rights Innovations in Argentine Migration and Refugee Legislation |
| Mussack, Mariel | Literary Perspectives of Ethnic Identity in Contemporary Guatemala |
| Neal, Leah | Minorities, Mobilization, and Marginalization: Non-Majority Actors and the 2011 Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions |
| Phillips, Chelsea | Evaluating Factors for Nonprofit Water Project Sustainability in Delhi, India: A look at the decision-making process for water project design and selecting water systems for providing access to clean, safe water |
| Singleton, Shaniqua | The Hour of the Regions: An Analysis of the State of Governance in the European Union |
| Triche, Ryan | Treating the Symptoms of Commitment Issues: Analyzing institutions as a prescription – A Case Study of Kenya |
| Wilen, Cora | The 95%: Why Women Embrace Diets that Don’t Work |
| Willis, Elizabeth | Shell in Ogoniland and Chevron/Texaco in the Oriente: A comparative analysis of human rights and corporate social responsibility |
All theses prior to 2013 are located in the North Carolina Collection at Wilson Library . Please click here to search for a thesis.
Theses are available for reading Monday through Friday from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm. Theses may not be removed from the premises and are in-library use only . Please be respectful and keep theses in numerical order.
Please contact Wilson Library for any questions at [email protected] .
| Author | Thesis Title |
|---|---|
| Archer, Eva | Evaluating Agricultural Productivity Development Projects in Rural Cambodia |
| Beasley, Spencer | The History of the Holocaust in Film and Fiction |
| Conklin, Amanda | Makings of a Modern ‘Model Minority’- Ethnic Koreans in Northeast China |
| Ding, James | Watts, Water, Wireless- The benefits and deficiencies of “tech waves” in rural India |
| Kibort-Crocker, Hannah | Living with a Disability in Mae Wan- an In-Depth Examination of Disabilities in Rural Northern Thailand |
| Mahin, Maya | Identifying the Strengths and Weaknesses of South Africa’s Social Assistance Programs |
| Merrill, Jessica | Implications of Concentrated Media Ownership: A Study of the Chilean Case |
| Nagaraj, Siddarth | Primary Health Care in Urban India: Selection and Satisfaction |
| Roozen, McKay | Tibetan Women of the Tibetan Women’s NGO at the Nexus of Social Change |
| Rosado, Benjamin | Examining Structural Violence in Guatemala through Conceptions of Depressive Symptoms |
| Stephenson, Elise | Eating Behavior is Children’s Programming- Investigating a potential contributor to childhood obesity |
| Teague, Brittany | El Embarazo After Emigration- Identity Reconceptualization during Pregnancy and Early Motherhood among Middle-Class Latina Immigrants in North Carolina |
| Archer, Claire | Identity and linguistic Policy in Catalan Context: The Linguistic Choices of Latin American Immigrants |
| Author | Thesis Title |
|---|---|
| Ali, Hanna T. | Health in Sudan: Where Do we Go from Here? A Comprehensive Literature Review and Meta-Analysis of the Current Health Situation in One of Africa’s Most Diverse Countries |
| Corbin, Bethany | A Bleeding Sin: An Examination of Honor Killings in Turkey and Germany |
| Deschamps-Laporte, Laurence | Sex, Fertility and the Marabouts: Cultural Conceptions of Family Planning in Mali |
| Fondren, Kristina | Empowering Women in the Fight Against HIV/AIDS: Policy Comparisons for a Global Microbicide Rollout |
| Locke, Katharine | Presence of the Past: Byzantine and Ottoman Architecture and Its Effects on the Collective Memory in Modern-Day Turkey |
| Stottlemyer, Patricia | Enough! The Evolution of Activism in Egypt: The Egyptian Movement for Change, or Kefaya |
| Willis, Emily | Institutions and Governance in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador |
| Author | Thesis Title |
|---|---|
| Desai, Priya | The Media Portrayal of Trafficking and the Increase of the Human Trade in China |
| Lascurain Garcia, Maria Celeste | Venezuela: The Status of a Country in 1998 |
| Monroy, S. C. Anais | What Affects German Public Attitudes toward Immigrants |
| Newman, Laura Leigh | Balancing Authenticity and Modernity in Globalization: Cultural Tourism in Otavalo and Atuntaqui, Ecuador |
| Ross, Courtney | Female Sterilization in Brazil: The Roles of Coercion and Exclusion |
| Savtchenko, Alex | Contemporary Russian Strategic Objectives in Foreign Policy |
| Stancioff, Charlotte Eloise | The Cultivation of Health: National Rhetoric, Health Care Programs and Land |
| Tuch, Joshua | An Analysis of the Participation and Performance of Islamist Political Parties in National Parliamentary Elections |
| Author | Thesis Title |
|---|---|
| Abdullah, Hasan | The Coming Green Revolution: The Need for a More Sustainable United States |
| Al-Zoubi, Maryam | Finding Islamic Feminism in Syria: A Comparison of the Abu Noor and Qubaysiyat Women’s Revivalist Groups |
| Barretto, Aja | The Struggle for Land, the Demand to Survive: the Rama-Kriol community’s pursuit for territorial ownership in Nicaragua’s Autonomous Region |
| Blackburn, Natalie Alice | The Politics of Promoting Abstinence: The Effect of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief on Nongovernmental Organizations |
| Cuff, Alexandria | Spanish National Identity: Representations of the Latin American and African “Other” in Spanish Films in the 1990s |
| Highfill, Hannah Louisa | Beyond the Mosque: Religious Practice, Gender, and Space in a Sufi Group in Istanbul |
| Hinderliter, Sandra | The Impacts of the Deportation Policies 287(g) and Secure Communities on Immigrant Families: An Investigation into the Lives of Hispanic Immigrants in North Carolina |
| Holmes, Lauren | Common European Foreign Policy? An Examination of the EU’s Response to Conflict in Kosovo |
| Khan, Manal | Of Obama, Osama and Muslims: The 2008 Presidential Election and the Framing of the Issue of Islam/Muslims |
| Mohamed, Ola | Campus and Country: Universities and American Perceptions of Islam and Muslims Post 9/11 |
| Plaks, Mallory | Lost in Translation: The Struggle for Supranational and Local Actors to Protect Victims of Sex Trafficking through International Protocols and State Legislation |
| Rakower, Lauren | An Occupied Territory Without an Occupier: Occupation of Gaza Ends and Spoilers Begin: Reconciling Multilateralism, Responsibility and Control to Fill the Void |
| Romano, Alicia M. | Italian Christian Democrats: Power through Coalition |
| Stelling, Amy C. | Tutti a La Tavola: Food, Family, and Identity in Contemporary Italy |
| Yorke, Aaron | Continuity and Change in France: the European Project’s Influence on Identities |
| Author | Thesis Title |
|---|---|
| Bordeaux-Preston, Stephanie | The Impact of Microcredit Loan Terms on Guatemalan Business Performance |
| Chilukuri, Vivek | The Global Generation: American Youth Connected and Committed to the World |
| Cordell, Faith | Language Policy and the Politics of Development: A Study of Ghana and Senegal |
| Fickes, Dara | Analysis of the Cultural Transformation of the Griot |
| Grossblatt, Sarah | Pious, Feminist & Islamist: A Study of Young Women in Jordan |
| Hall, Marissa | The Limits and Potential of Alternative Development as a Supply Reduction Strategy in the Andes |
| Han, Chao | China’s Development in the Past Thirty Years and the Need for a New Developmental Model in China |
| Large, Kaitlyn | Why Counterinsurgencies Fail: The Patterns of Behavior that Block Governmental Learning |
| McGarry, Claire | Beyond Traditional Economic Value: An Ethnographic Study of Value Change Among Female Artisans in Itaugua, Paraguay |
| McGuire, Cooper | Dispelling the Myth of Financial Enlightenment: Wall Street isn’t Growning Down, Microfinance is Growing Up |
| Peavey, Seth | The Economic and Humanitarian Impact of Chinese Oil Investment in Sudan |
| Remington, Bethany | Football and Competing Spanish Nationalisms |
| Riehl, Emily | Nueva Cancion in Exile |
| Scott, Valerie | The Impact of HIV/AIDS on Rural Livelihoods in Lilunga, Swaziland |
| Shepard, Daniel | Microfinance and the Conceptualization of Women’s Empowerment in the Puna |
| Sikder, Shegufta | Localizing the Millenium Development Goals: Community-Based Human Development in Bangladesh |
| Sloop, Evan | Approaching Sustainability: the Socioeconomic and Political Drivers of Environmental Degradation in Ecuador and Costa Rica |
| Stanley, Ellen | The Platt Amendment and “The Bush Plan”: Questioning U.S. Intervention in Cuba |
| Thompson, Katherine | Preventing Relapses into Ethnic Conflict through Political Reconstruction in Post-Conflict Societies |
| Valiunas, Mantas | The Shifting Reasons for Naturalization in an Increasingly Globalized Society |
| Westervelt, Lauren | Interpreting Progress in Human Development within the Framework of the Millennium Development Goals: A Cuban Case Study of Education and Health |
| Yang, Kapa | Reasons and Motivations for the Migration of the Hmong to North Carolina |
| Author | Thesis Title |
|---|---|
| Aldersey, Heather | Reconciliation or Victors’ Justice?: A Study of Reconciliation Experiences in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| Cook, Laura | The Spirit of the Law: An Ethical Analysis of British Asylum Policy |
| Diamond, Morgan | In the Unity of the Holy Spirit: An Exploration of African American Reactions to Immigration at St. Mary’s Catholic Church |
| Dietrich, Cheryl | Malaria and the Integration of Traditional Medicine Treatment Seeking Behaviors in Africa and the Global Health Discourse |
| Donnalley, Cortney | Female Identity and Gendered Spaces in Contemporary Franco-Maghrebi Films |
| Hachey, Michael | Tosha! Worker Organizing Against Sweatshop Development in Kenya, 2003–2006 |
| Lapar, Adrianne | Slovakia’s “Roma Problem”: A Study of the EU’s Requirements for Minority Rights Protections |
| Murph, Ashley | Where Did All the Voters Go? Factors Affecting Voter Participation in the 2004 European Parliament Election |
| Murphy, Kevin | Taming the Tico Tiger: Why have foreign owned medical device makers in Costa Rica developed supply relationships with domestically owned enterprises while foreign owned electronics makers have not? |
| Pan, Eileen | Evaluation of Tanzanian Microfinance: Structure, Limitations and Women |
| Patel, Aneri | May the Wind Be Ever at Your Back and the Sun Shine Upon Your Face: Renewable Energy Development in Rural India |
| Peck, Caroline | Female Political Bodies and Body Politics: Muslim Women’s Participation in the Development of the Palestinian Nationalist Islamist Movement |
| Sellers, Amanda | Behind the Façade of Fear: A Look at How the Front National’s Manipulation of Republican Values Has Caused a Rise in Xenophobia in French Society and Policy Regarding Immigration |
| Steelman, Taylor | The Darfur Peace Agreement: Challenges to Peace in Darfur, Sudan |
| Thomson, Sarah Lindsay | Competing Claims for the Development Agenda: An Analysis of the Rise and Decline of the Environmental Justice Networking Forum, South Africa |
| Tye, Jesslyn Blake | Betweeen Figured Worlds: A Catholic Congregational Study of Religious Ritual and Sacred Space in St. Thomas More Church, Chapel Hill, North Carolina |
| Zhurakovskaya, Larissa | The Effects of Liberalization on Apparel Trade between the Baltic States and the European Union |
| Author | Thesis Title |
|---|---|
| Brosseau, Carli | Waging Peace: the Case of the Greater Horn of Africa Initiative |
| Cox, Brian | The Crises of Transition: An Examination of the Relationship Between Socioeconomic Status and Health in the Context of Post-Soviet Russia |
| Craig, Stacey | Peasant Associations in Mali: The Mobilization of Local Forces to Confront Globalization |
| Crandell, Adam | Major League Baseball and the Search for Labor in the Dominican Republic: A Study in U.S. Hegemony and the Multinational Enterprise System |
| Dombalis, Helen | When Actions Speak Louder Than Words: How the Human Rights Institutions of Nairobi’s Kibera Slum Have Failed the People |
| Ghiloni, Lauren | The Changes in Identity through Experiences of Study Abroad: The Importance of Study Abroad in a Modernizing World |
| Gillespie, Abigail | The Revitalization of the Social Science Disciplines in Chilean Higher Education within the Context of Privatization |
| Goodman, Olivia | On the Fringe: Language Policy, Marginalization and Minority Education in China |
| Holder, Vanessa | Power of the People? The Impact of Municipal Elections on Democratization |
| Laabs, Mark Joseph | Catalyzing Community Development through Youth Empowerment: Applying New Theories to the Case Study of Kaikohe, New Zealand |
| Lee, Tessa Margaret | Patria O Muerte? A History of Race and Nationalism in Cuba |
| Linzy, Adjoa | The Role of Non-Governmental Organizations in Shaping U.S. Foreign Policy Towards Africa: A Case Study of the Response to the Darfur Crises 2003-2005, Sudan |
| McNamara, Kate | The Effectiveness of Quotas at Increasing Women’s Representation and Participation in African Parliaments |
| Mills, Emily | The Limits of International Organizations in the Former Yugoslavia and Kosovo |
| Morris, Jeanne | It’s Not Visas! An Analysis of the Factors Impacting International Student Enrollment in Higher Education |
| Mullins, Jennifer | Onchocerciasis and International Health Policy: Upholding Ideals of Holistic Health with One Disease in West Africa and Chiapas, Mexico |
| Raja, Sonal | An Analysis of the Effectiveness of the State Response to the Gujarat Genocide Written in the Context of the Rome Statute and the International Criminal Court: Is the ICC a More Effective Court than the National Courts of the State of Gujarat, India? |
| Ramjee, Shaniel | A Chinese Stock Market Revolution: Harnessing Household Savings to Drive Domestic Capital Formation through Stock Market Reform |
| Verdier, Mathilde | A Study of Conflicting Data on Sex Trafficking of Women and Children, Using Bosnia and Herzegovina as a Case Study |
| Warner, Jason Scott | The Six Roadblocks to the Provision of Universal Primary Education: An Investigation of Senegal’s Progress Towards the Achievement of Millennium Development Goal Number Two |
| Author | Thesis Title |
|---|---|
| Anderson, Amon | Equity and Education in Chile and Cuba: A Comparative Analysis of Education Policy and Performance |
| Bell, Caitlin | Urban Mobility Planning in Bologna, Italy |
| Bobbe, Sarah | The Emergence of an International Regime to Transform the Unsustainable Marine Ornamental Fish Trade |
| Gamache, Katie | Dual Language Education: Bridging the Language and Achievement Gap among American Youth |
| Henegar, Cassidy | Ghana and Schistosomiasis: an Exploration of the Link between the Effectiveness of Public Health Programs and Culture |
| Iravani, Heide Motaghi | The World Bank’s Role in Developing Water and Sanitation in the Palestinian Territories |
| Jones, Kristal | Conflict in Caucasus: Effects of Soviet Borders and Possible Uses of Federalism to Resolve Issues in Abkhazia and Karabakh |
| Kinner, Robert Luke | Rethinking Collateral Damage: Environmental and Human Health Consequences of Depleted Uranium Munitions and Conventional Weapons used during Operation Allied Force |
| Knutson, Sarah | The Moral and Legal Issues of the United Nations’ Humanitarian Intervention in Somalia 1992-1995 |
| McKellogg, Sara | Immigration, Identity and Intolerance: North African Immigrants in Modern Spain |
| Mihaylova, Milena | The Effects of Neo-Liberal Reforms on the Roma in Bulgaria |
| Orr, Jennifer | With a Cuy and a Stethoscope: New Initiatives in Culturally-Appropriate Health Care for the Amerindian Populations of Ecuador |
| Paler, Brian | The Pro-European Transition of Turkey’s Islamic Political Movement |
| Rajagopalan, Kavita | Colonial Constructions of Borders: The Legacy of the Border Between India and Pakistan |
| Rankin, Johanna | A New Frontier of Humanitarianism?Médecins Sans Frontières Responds to Neglected Diseases |
| Shaw, Robert | They Don’t Need Books: Mexican Immigrants’ Access to Education |
| Tifft, Daniel | The Political Economy of Trade Adjustment Assistance: An Examination of the Influence of Sectoral Interests on Legislative Preference for the Trade Adjustment Assistance Program |
| Voyles, Virginia | Stories of Hope for the Suffering: Missionary Medicine and Its Role in the HIV/AIDS Crisis in Shyira, Rwanda |
| Author | Thesis Title |
|---|---|
| Almairac, Laure | From Hostility to Cooperation: A Retrospective of the Exceptional Polish-German Relationship |
| Berry, James Warren | Government and Society: An Analysis of the Various Forms of Democracy |
| Chen, Monica | Migrant Workers and Workers’ Rights Violations in China: The Situation in Shenzhen, Shanghai, and Beijing |
| Christie, Amanda McLaren | Political Corruption in Post-Independence Uganda and the Effects on Economic Development |
| Davis, Jessica | Micro-lending in Europe and the European Microfinance Network: Current Situation and Possibilities of Success |
| Dowdy, Jessica | Welfare Reform and Immigrant Well-Being |
| Flakes, Gina | Washington and Seoul, Managing Relations with the DPRK in a Post Cold War World: A Case Study of the 1994 Agreed Framework |
| Flowe, Meredith | Confronting Sex Slavery: Non-profit Advocacy in Bosnia-Herzegovina and the United States |
| Gbade-Alabi, Oyinkansade Adedayo | SAP and the Nigerian Economy, 1986-1992: An Insight to Future Policies and Reforms |
| Ilias, Shayerah | Financial Product Innovation and Market Competition in Bangladesh’s Microfinance Sector |
| Patel, Mumukshu | The Post-Conflict Democratization Dilemma: Using the United States’ Democracy-building Efforts in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo as Case-studies to Evaluate Liberal Democracies’ Post-conflict Democratization Dilemma |
| Smith, Ian | China’s Energy Policy: A Historical and Institutional Analysis |
| Sunstrum, Pamela Phatsimo | Culture Speaks Through Art: Preserving the Congo Tradition through Community-based Art Projects in Portobelo, Panama |
| Wingo, Ellen | Moroccan and Ecuadorian Migration to Spain: The role of cultural bias in immigration and immigrant policy and in the differential treatment of immigrant groups |
| Author | Thesis Title |
|---|---|
| Cottin, Alexandre | The Rise of the Extreme Right in Western Europe: A Case Study of the Post War Extreme Right Movement in France, Austria, the Netherlands, and Great Britain |
| Coward, Natalie | The State, the Economy and the Education System in South Africa: Resolving the Past |
| Dalton, John | East Germany: Another Mezzogiorno? |
| DeJong, Neal | Political Reform and Democratic Development in Mexico |
| Dharmadhikari, Vaishali | Education in India: A Study of the Role of Government, Community Organizations, and Citizens |
| Dunn, Lisa | Education for All? An Assessment of the Academic Achievement Gap and Mexican Immigrant Students |
| Hastings, Jesse | Tourism and Development in Paradise: A Comparison of the Tourist Industry in Two Caribbean Case Studies |
| Lake, Britt Ashley | African Migration and Xenophobia in Post-Apartheid South Africa |
| Lynch, Michele | The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees: Redefining Refugee Protection in a Changing World |
| Mason, Meredith | The Impact of the Goal of European Union Accession on the Solidarity of Croatia’s Governing Coalition: Adhesive or Corrosive? |
| McCall, Charles | A Game-theoretic Model of Non-cooperative Climate Change Coalitions: The Potential for a USA-China Coalition Outside the Kyoto Protocol |
| Norris, Kristopher | An Unwelcome Gospel? American Christian Missions to the Muslim Middle East |
| Ong, Ryan | A Lesson for Beijing: The Political and Infrastructural Ramifications of Hosting the Summer Olympic Games for Third World Countries |
| Pfeifer, Melanie | The Importance of the Relationship Between the United States and Soviet Union During German Unification: A Focus on Political Memoirs |
| Shackelford, Jordan | Forest Management in Thailand: Legacies of the Past and Community Forestry Solutions for the Future |
| Zarella, Narja | I Am Cuban, I Cannot Be Different: An Exploration of Cuban National Sounds |
| Author | Thesis Title |
|---|---|
| Andrews, Katherine | Japanese Society during World War II: Attitudes Towards the War—Levels of Resistance and Compliance |
| Brown, D. Levin | Danwei: The History, Structure and Lived Experience of the Socialist Chinese Work Unit |
| Duquette, Lauren | The Political Economy of Inflation in Latin America |
| Hester, Tim | Health and Healthcare in Northeastern Brazil |
| Hoffman, Michael Andrew | The United States, the European Union, and the Kyoto Protocol: A Case Study in the Changing Dynamics of International Leadership |
| Keeton, Sara | Are You My Mommy? International Adoptees Search for Cultural Roots |
| Morgan, E. Michelle | Peace Media and the Impact of Studio Ijambo on Burundi’s Ethnic Conflict |
| Motley, Sarah Anne | Unacknowledged Voices: Exploring the Relationship between Domestic Public Opinion and US Foreign Policy During the Bosnian Conflict, 1992–1995 |
| Newton, Ryan | Charming our Migrants in Fortress Europe: Understanding the Changing Role of Migration in Morocco’s Economic and Development Strategy |
| Thornton, Katherine | Language Reform in Twentieth Century China |
| Tompkins, Andrew | Deconstructing Jose Bove: Food, National Identity, and Globalization in France |
| Waites, Natalie | The Action Francaise and the Front National: Constructing the Identity of the French Extreme Right in the Twentieth Century |
| Author | Thesis Title |
|---|---|
| Bolton, Laura | Music Therapy as Humanitarian Aid: A Study of Music and Children of War—in Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina |
| Carey, Ramona | Foreign Aid to Post-Communist Societies: A Comparison of the Standard Aid Model and the Soros Approach |
| D’Amore, Chiara | Sustainable Development and Renewable Energy: Global Influences and Latin American Realities |
| Downs, Marissa | Trial by Fire: The OSCE in Post-Dayton Bosnia |
| Irvin, Christy | Press Liberation and International Intervention: Lessons Learned on Bosnia |
| Kissling, Elizabeth | El Camino de Santiago in an Evolving Twentieth Century Spain |
| Krzywosz, Keiko | The Ko-Gal Phenomenon: Girls’ Fashion and Resistance in Contemporary Japan |
| Liu, Belinda | Breaking Down the Melting Pot Hegemony: Deconstructing the American Identity within the Context of Immigration |
| McKay, Sarah | Comprehending China: A Discourse on International Human Rights in the People’s Republic of China |
| Monken, Virginia Ann | The Rise of La Politica Mexicana: Motivated by Strategic Feminism or Practical Need |
| Richter, Reynolds | The African Growth and Opportunity Act of 2000: A New Scramble for Africa |
| Shah, Namita | Prospects for Democracy: A Study of Venezuela and Argentina Under the Leadership of President Hugo Chavez and Carlos Menem |
| Shubash, John | Dispute Resolution and Regional Organizations: Dispute Resolution in Mercosur and in the European Union |
| Spence, Devyn | Siempre Coca-Cola: The Impact of Globalization on Guatemalan Indigenous Communities |
| Stovel, Shana | A Historical Overview of Cuban Public Health and the Cuban Health Care System: The Effects of the US Embargo and Collapse of the Soviet Union |
| Worley, Laura | In the Pursuit of Grandeur: French Leadership of the European Security and Defense |
| Author | Thesis Title |
|---|---|
| Betowt, Jennifer | Our Fighting Alliance: The ANC, the SACP, and the Struggle to Create a Human Rights Culture in the New South Africa |
| Brezina, Valerie | Comparative Economic Development: A Study of the Factors that Precipitated or Hampered Economic Growth in South Korea and Argentina in the Postwar World |
| Cooper, Ann | Tueur Mais Travailleur: Theory and Reality of State Violence in Burkina Faso |
| Hackney, Tara Sanders | The Invisible Giant: The Christian Food System |
| Kallam, Jerri Anne | Office Lady Resistance: A Double Edged Sword |
| Kent, Stacie | Western Images of China from the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries |
| McElwain, Audrey | Sex Tourism and Orientalism: Analyzing the Western Gaze in Bangkok, Thailand |
| Parikh, Sapana | Applying the Neocolonial Dependence Model to HIV/AIDS Prevention/Education: Urban Youth in New Delhi, India |
| Slayton, Thomas | Theater Missile Defense and the East Asian Security Dilemma |
| Smith, Jessica | Division in Cameroon and its Impact on the State |
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Honors Program in Psychology and Neuroscience
The Senior Honors Program in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience has two components:
- Students conduct an independent research project in the laboratory of a faculty member who is affiliated either with the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience or with the Neuroscience major, and
- Students enroll in and complete PSYC/NSCI 693H (Fall) and PSYC/NSCI 694H (Spring), which meet once per week.
Enrollment in the Honors Program is not restricted to students who have participated in UNC Honors Carolina and Psychology majors and Neuroscience majors who have been in the UNC Honors Program do not necessarily complete Senior Honors.
In order to graduate with Honors in Psychology or Neuroscience, you must apply by April 16 of your Junior Year .
Apply for Honors Program
Eligibility for the Honors Program requires:
- Minimum cumulative GPA of 3.3
- Prior research experience (e.g., volunteer or paid research experience that was not for course credit; in-process completion of PSYC 395 or NSCI 395
- Confirmation of a Psychology and Neuroscience faculty member or a faculty member affiliated with the Neuroscience major to serve as your Honors Advisor or Co-mentor (see FAQ section below: “What if my Research Mentor is not a Faculty Member in Psychology & Neuroscience?”)
Application form: https://forms.gle/6iLBdNcbmd9U553AA
Advisor reference form: https://forms.gle/KBGNEs88x6ncZ24J8
Have an additional question? Please check out our 2021 Senior Honors Program Information Session [Zoom] .
Frequently Asked Questions
- Apply yourself in your courses to maintain a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.3, which is a requirement for admission into the program.
- Read about research and talk to professors, graduate students, and other undergraduates about your research interests. Think about the types of research you’d like to do. Keep a notebook of research ideas.
- Achieve a mastery of research skills. Take PSYC 210 and 270 as soon as this is feasible as these courses teach basic skills that are important for research. You must also obtain research experience by volunteering to work in a faculty lab or by taking PSYC/NSCI 395.
- Learn about the program by talking to faculty and students. Make an appointment or email questions to the Honors Program Director .
- Seek out research opportunities via research intensive courses, independent research experiences, paid research assistant positions, and volunteer positions. It is strongly advised that students take PSYC 210, PSYC 270, and PSYC/NSCI 395 before applying to develop necessary skills and research interests.
- Plan ahead. The Honors Program is designed to be completed during two semesters of the senior year (i.e., you must be on-campus and enrolled both fall and spring semesters). Thus, study abroad during senior year, December graduation, and other educational opportunities may preclude participation in the Honors Program. If you have questions about your eligibility, please make an appointment with the Honors Program Director .
- Identify a faculty member to serve as your Honors Advisor. Explore our faculty’s research interests and read research articles to see if a faculty member’s research reflects your interests. A potential Honors Advisor may be identified during PSYC/NSCI 395. If you have difficulty identifying a sponsor, contact the Honors Program Director .
- Apply on time. Applications should be submitted by April 16th of your junior year.
- The completed thesis must be distributed to all committee members at least one week prior to the oral defense meeting. The Oral Defense Form must be completed and provided to your Honors Advisor prior to the meeting.
- Students present their research in about 15 minutes during the oral defense meeting. The committee will ask questions and the meeting typically takes an hour. Any revisions recommended by the Honors Committee must be made before the deadline for thesis submission. The final copy of the thesis, after approval, should be submitted to the Carolina Digital Repository . All students must participate in the Honors Poster Session as a requirement of program completion.
Honors Theses
Past Honors Theses are listed below in PDF format.
- 2021-22 Honors Theses
- 2020-21 Honors Theses
- 2019-20 Honors Theses
- 2018-19 Honors Theses
- 2017-18 Honors Theses
- 2016-17 Honors Theses
- 2015-16 Honors Theses
- 2014-15 Honors Theses
- 2013-14 Honors Theses
- 2012-13 Honors Theses
- 2011-12 Honors Theses
- 2010-11 Honors Theses
- 2009-10 Honors Theses
- 2008-09 Honors Theses
- 2007-08 Honors Theses
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Dr. Keely Muscatell Psychology and Neuroscience Honors Program Director, Fall 2023 – Spring 2024 328 Davie Hall [email protected]
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Hey! Has anyone completed an honors thesis before? Is it possible to do like a “crossover” or does it have to be solely one dept? (For example, I’m a English major and wgst minor, could I incorporate wgst into a English honors thesis?) I am considering an honors thesis in biology or English, any recommendations for either one? Is biology strictly quantitative? Any general advice? Thanks all!
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Senior Honors Thesis
Each year, a select group of undergraduate students enroll in the History Senior Honors Thesis program that culminates in the writing of a substantial, original, and polished piece of historical research. If you plan to go to graduate school in history, attend law school, work in public history, or if you simply cannot get enough of historical research and writing, this is the program for you.
At the beginning of the spring semester, the department invites the application of rising seniors who have an overall academic average of 3.3 or better, an average of 3.4 or better in history courses, and will have successfully completed at least one Undergraduate Seminar in HIST 398. For the Spring 2024 application, click here . The deadline for applications is Friday, March 8th.
The basic structure for the senior honors program is provided by HIST 691H and 692H, an intensive, two-semester research and writing seminar conducted by the department’s honors director. In addition to weekly seminar meetings, each honors candidate holds regular meetings with an honors adviser, a faculty member with knowledge of the given field.
Click here to see the posters and abstracts of some of the excellent work done by past Senior Honors Thesis students.
At the end of the spring semester, the honors prize committee makes the final determinations for Highest Honors and awards the Frank Ryan Prize to the best essay of the year. Awards are normally announced at a year-ending honors lunch celebrating the achievements of the department’s distinguished undergraduates.
Funding in support of research may be available through Honors Carolina and the Department of History’s Boyatt and Kusa awards .
Questions about the History Senior Honors Thesis should be directed to the current program director, Brett Whalen .
Understanding gradient-based algorithms via the lens of ODEs
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- April 30, 2024
- Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Statistics and Operations Research
- This thesis delves into the dynamics of gradient-based optimization algorithms, presenting a comprehensive analysis through the sophisticated lens of ODEs. By transitioning from traditional discrete formulations to a continuous domain, we unveil another perspective on the convergence behaviors and efficiency of well-known optimization strategies, including Vanilla Gradient Descent, Polyak's Momentum Method, and Nesterov's Accelerated Gradient. Our exploration extends beyond theoretical derivations to include a series of numerical experiments, designed to empirically validate the theoretical models and uncover the interplay between algorithmic parameters and optimization performance. The findings illuminate the conditions under which these algorithms exhibit optimal behavior, with a particular focus on the role of step size and momentum in enhancing convergence rates. Moreover, the study introduces advanced analyses, such as Lyapunov functions and high-resolution ODEs, to further dissect the mechanisms of algorithm acceleration and stability. The culmination of this work not only advances our understanding of gradient-based methods but also suggests avenues for algorithmic refinement and application in computational mathematics and machine learning. Through a blend of rigorous mathematical analysis and empirical investigation, this thesis contributes to the ongoing dialogue on optimization strategies, providing insights that bridge theoretical elegance with practical efficiency.
- April 29, 2024
- https://doi.org/10.17615/r6sf-hw54
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Writing the honors thesis in English and Comparative Literature Recommended timeline for writing the thesis: Spring before enrollment in 691H: choose an advisor, fill out application, the learning contract, and compile bibliography or plans for summer reading prior to the official start of the honors thesis.. Summer before enrollment: it is highly recommended that you pursue some provisional ...
These honors students took a year-long class culminating in the writing of a Senior Honors Thesis. For ECL, these theses are typically 35-80 pages of original research on a topic of the student's choosing. Creative Writing Thesis students compose a minimum of 75 pages of original fiction or creative non-fiction or a thousand lines of original ...
Writing a senior honors thesis, or any major research essay, can seem daunting at first. A thesis requires a reflective, multi-stage writing process. This handout will walk you through those stages. It is targeted at students in the humanities and social sciences, since their theses tend to involve more writing than projects in the hard sciences.
Many Honors Carolina students cap their undergraduate experience with a Senior Honors Thesis, partnering with a faculty mentor to develop original research or creative work. Students who successfully defend their thesis before a faculty review panel graduate with Honors or Highest Honors. Each year, approximately 350 … Continued
Page 1 of 1 APPLICATION FOR ADMISSION: SENIOR HONORS ESSAY DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH Please return to Professor Reid Barbour at [email protected]. Please inform Professor Barbour as soon as possible of your address, telephone number and email, if not indicated above, while you are doing your honors thesis project. Today's Date
Interested students should consult with the honors advisor in their major about department-specific requirements. Honors Carolina. Visit Program Website. 218 E. Franklin Street. (919) 966-5110. Peter T. Grauer Associate Dean for Honors Carolina. James Leloudis. [email protected].
Catherine Ransom. Thesis Title: "KEEPING IT COUNTRY: Authenticity and Commodification of Country Music in Lee Smith's The Devil's Dream". Ransom's Favorite Line: "The multi-generational narrative passes through dirt floor homes and leads right up to the Opryland Hotel, but above all else, the family remains tied to their music, the cornerstone of their lives.
Celebrating Honors Thesis Class of 2022. Congratulations to all the ECL seniors who completed an Honors Thesis in the Department this year! These students, in their final year, worked to produce roughly 35-80 pages of original research into a topic of their choosing. Read more about these students and see the previous Honors student features here.
HONORS THESIS LEARNING CONTRACT Department of English and Comparative Literature Course # ENGL or CMPL 691H & 692H Credit Hours: 3 credit hours each Open to English & Comparative Literature majors in their senior year with a minimum 3.30 overall GPA and a 3.6 GPA in department major courses taken at UNC Chapel Hill.
honors thesis are available on the Honors Carolina website.PART 1: IMPORTANT RESOURCES & LINKS Dr. Geoffrey Bell ([email protected], 3305 Venable Hall), Honors Program Faculty Advisor - contact to obtain and submit a learning contr. esis. Violet Anderson ([email protected]; - contact about registration for ENEC 693H/694H.
Each academic unit should select a single senior honors thesis coursework format from the options below, ensuring that all students within the department follow the selected method. Regardless of the scheduling format used, senior honors thesis courses may be scheduled only during fall or spring semesters, not during summer sessions.
Celebrating Honors Thesis Students With all that has been happening this semester, we wanted to make sure that we took a moment to give credit to ECL's amazing honors thesis students. These students, in their final year, worked to produce roughly 35-80 pages of original research into a topic of their choosing.
Students completing their senior honors thesis in Fall 2023 must complete all thesis-related work (including defense) by Monday, November 13, 2023. Graduating With Honors Your department must report your name to the Honors Carolina office to confirm that you will be graduating with honors in your degree.
Honors Carolina offers financial awards to support Senior Honors Thesis research. These awards, up to $500, may be used to cover any legitimate cost directly connected to a thesis project: laboratory equipment and supplies, computer software and hardware, travel, artistic supplies, books and periodicals not available through normal library ...
The process varies by department. Your best insight will come from students who have done one in your department. You could ask a professor you like to meet with you over zoom to talk about the process. They may be able to put you in contact with a recent department honors thesis writer. 1.
A guide to finding theses and dissertations. Most UNC dissertations are in the UNC-CH catalog. If searching for a known author or title, searching the online catalog is the most efficient way to search: A sample search: title = "Chaucer's relative constructions" You can also use the Boolean Search feature of the Advanced UNC-CH Catalog to perform Keyword Searches for UNC dissertations.
An honors thesis involves two semesters of independent research for academic credit: COMM 693H in the fall of senior year and COMM 694H in the spring of senior year (or for students graduating in December: COMM 693H in the spring and COMM 694H in the fall semester immediately prior to graduation). Students who wish to begin work on their senior ...
History-writing as a "Bulwark against the Passage of Time:" The Middle Byzantine World through the Eyes of Michael Psellos, Anna Komnene, and John Kinnamos
All theses prior to 2013 are located in the North Carolina Collection at Wilson Library. Please click here to search for a thesis. Theses are available for reading Monday through Friday from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm. Theses may not be removed from the premises and are in-library use only. Please be respectful and keep theses in numerical order.
Psychology and Neuroscience Honors Program Director, Fall 2023 - Spring 2024. 328 Davie Hall. [email protected]. Andrew Bresson. Undergraduate Student Services Manager. 206B Davie Hall. 919-843-0174. [email protected].
However, all honors theses have at least two things in common: 1. They are based on students' original research. 2. They take the form of a written manuscript, which presents the findings of that research. In the humanities, theses average 50-75 pages in length and consist of two or more chapters.
A senior honors thesis in one of the natural sciences (like biology) is going to look like a typical research paper. I have heard of a creative writing (poetry) minor that did a "science theme" with their poetry honors thesis. I think creative writing is the only minor that you can write a senior honors thesis for, everything else you have ...
The basic structure for the senior honors program is provided by HIST 691H and 692H, an intensive, two-semester research and writing seminar conducted by the department's honors director. In addition to weekly seminar meetings, each honors candidate holds regular meetings with an honors adviser, a faculty member with knowledge of the given field.
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For the last five years, she has taught English 2 and honors English 2 at Corsicana High, a Title I school . district. In the 2022-2023 school year, she was named Corsicana High's Distinguished Teacher of the Year, and she received a Recognized-level designation for the Teacher Incentive Allotment. Stephanie Opperman