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The Institutional Repository at UF (the  IR@UF ) includes the Undergraduate Honors Theses collection . During their graduating term*, Honors students are invited to submit their their final Honors project for inclusion in this collection. This is a free service of the UF Libraries. After students who have completed their submission graduate with Honors, the Libraries will add their works to the IR@UF and email a permanent link to them that they can include in applications, résumés, social media, or share with friends, colleagues, and family.

Honors degree requirements vary by department , so be sure to check with your advisor and/or undergraduate coordinator to see whether your department requires you to submit your thesis or other project to the IR@UF.

*Students in the Medical Honors Program complete their theses during their third undergraduate year because they start their first year of medical school during their last year as undergraduates.

Guidelines vary by degree program

Be sure to talk to your thesis or project advisor and/or your department's Honors coordinator about department-specific guidelines and their deadline for submission. Departments can set their own deadlines for Libraries submissions and we can provide them with a list of successful submissions after the department's deadline passes.

Libraries' default submission deadlines

• Spring 2024 Graduates - April 26
• Summer 2024 Graduates - August 2

Important: If your department requires you to defend your thesis or project, your Libraries submission deadline might be different. Please contact your faculty advisor or Honors coordinator if you do not already know your department's deadline for Libraries submissions.

Graduation requirements

Libraries : Deadlines to submit to the Libraries will not affect your graduation unless your department requires a completed Libraries submission .

Department : Deadlines to submit your Honors thesis/project to your department might affect your graduation.

Submission assistance

Department : Contact your academic mentor and/or your department's undergrad coordinator.

Libraries : Contact the submissions team at [email protected] or 352-294-3785.

• Honors co-author grant of permission
• Permission to exceed fair use

Submitting to the Libraries

• Do I need to submit?
• What do I submit?
• How do I submit?
• Why should I submit?
• Your faculty advisor and/or your department’s undergrad coordinator can tell you whether you must submit a thesis or other terminal project.
• For preservation purposes, you need to submit the approved version of your Honors work to the Libraries.
• You also have several options for restricting access to your thesis or project; see the document linked below for details.
• If you unfortunately fail to graduate with Honors but your faculty advisor accepted your Honors thesis or project, we can include it in our Undergraduate Works collection. Please email [email protected] to let us know that you want to take advantage of this service.
• Restriction Options for Honors Theses and Projects

Thesis or project file(s):

• "Standard" here means a plain PDF saved from Microsoft Word or another word processor.
• Do not include any departmental or college forms in your thesis or project file(s).
• Do not scan a printed copy of your work to send to us.
• Media, dataset, and other types of submissions must conform to the acceptable formats list .

If necessary, please upload a signed letter (or letters) of permission to quote or reproduce copyrighted material for all copyrighted material included beyond fair use (i.e., entire graphics and large portions of text or data where someone else holds the copyright). If you cannot get the answer you need from the copyright guide, you can email your question(s) to [email protected].

• As the (an) author of the work, you do not need to submit a Permission to Quote form.
• You also do not need to upload a grant of permission form; the online form collects your permission agreement.
• If you have co-authors who are not UF employees or graduate students, you will need a signed  Honors Co-author Grant of Permissions from them.

NOTE : For our purposes, only list co-authors who contributed substantial writing (including code) to the work. Do not include research collaborators, reviewers, or editors. Use your acknowledgements or dedication to thank them.

Please do not submit your Honors thesis or project until you have final approval of your work from your department.

Write to us at [email protected] if you have any questions while you are preparing your Honors submission to the Libraries.

• IR Accepted Formats A list of the accepted format types for inclusion in the IR@UF
• Keep copies of your work and the form(s) that you submit to your department.
• Requirements vary by department . Be sure that you understand yours well before their deadline.
• Example: Alligator_Alberta_permission_to_exceed_fair_use_archive
• After you log in with your GatorLink credentials, complete the online form at  https://apps.uflib.ufl.edu/Honors/ to submit your work to the Libraries by our deadline (see the Basics box on the left for deadlines). If you are not using a campus computer , connect to the VPN.

Note: If you see an Honors level that seems wrong to you, or no Honors level at all, please do not be concerned. The form uses the Honors pre-certification data. Not all colleges/schools enter that data and the final Honors level is occasionally different from what colleges enter for pre-certification.

• If your project file is larger than 50 MB, you will not be able to upload it to the form. Please do not compress the file; instead, send a OneDrive link to [email protected] and we will assist you. There is effectively no file size limit and we want to archive the highest possible quality version of your work.
• Overview of the Online Submission Form
• Publishing your work in the IR@UF is a free service
• Enhance résumés and applications
• Show off to friends and family
• Support ongoing scholarship by enabling others to cite your work in their own
• Prospective students can see the variety and strength of undergraduate research opportunities at UF

Who should I list as co-authors?

Items in the Honors collection are treated similarly to graduate-level theses and dissertations, except that you can work with a co-author (co-creator). Unlike articles in scientific journals, you should only list people who contributed substantially to the writing. Use your acknowledgements section to list people who helped with the research itself.

What if my mentor/advisor is not in my college? All you need to enter for a mentor is their name and their primary organizational affiliation (department or school at UF or other academic institutions; unit of government; non-profit organization; or business). When do I need to upload a signed grant of permissions form? First, you do not need to sign and upload a form yourself. The online submission form collects your permission agreement. If you have a co-author who is not a UF employee or graduate student, you need a signed form from them. If you have included enough content copyrighted by someone else that you have exceeded fair use , you need a signed form from them. What do I do if my thesis/project file is too large for my web browser to upload? Although there is no size limit for your submission, many browsers time out trying to upload files larger than 10-15 MB. If your browser is failing to upload your file, please share it with OneDrive and send the link to [email protected] . You can upload a dummy file, text, Word, or PDF to complete the form. Feel free to include a note mentioning the large file transfer, or just leave the file empty. What problems should I check for before I submit my thesis/project file? Before you upload your thesis/project file, check to ensure that:

• It is the exact version that your advisor and/or department approved.
• It is in PDF format.
• You created the PDF directly from Word or another text tool and did not scan a printout.
• No tracked changes or comments are present.
• Your margins are at least .5" (make table pages portrait orientation if needed).
• References are single-spaced.
• Your name appears as it will on your diploma.
• Your UFID is not present.

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2024 english and creative writing honors thesis presentations.

Please join the Department of English and Creative Writing for this year's English and creative writing honors thesis presentations, Tuesday, May 28 - Thursday, May 30, 2024, in Sanborn Library.

Please join the Department of English and Creative Writing for this year's English and creative writing honors thesis presentations, Tuesday, May 28 - Thursday, May 30, 2024, in Sanborn Library. These presentations will also be available virtually. Please register at dartgo.org/engl-cw-honors .

Tuesday, May 28, 2024

12:30 p.m. Introduction   12:45 p.m. Elle Muller Haunted Halls and Misnamed Monsters: Displacement and Erasure in Hrólfs Saga Kraka and Beowulf   1:00 p.m. Kennedy Hamblen Soft Mechanics: Hallucinogenic Media from De Quincey to Burroughs   1:15 p.m. Jea Mo Letters from Hanseong Street   1:30 p.m. Elizabeth Lee Grooves of Enactment: Bob Dylan's Planet Waves and the Philosophy of Recording   1:45 p.m. Isabella Macioce Everything Is a Love Poem   2:00 p.m. Ophelia Woodland Landmarks: A First Approach

Wednesday, May 29, 2024

1:00 p.m. Introduction   1:15 pm. Eliza Holmes The Madwoman Reimagined: Narration and the Diagnostic Process in Victorian Gothic Fiction   1:30 p.m. Maria Amador The Museum of Everyday Life   1:45 p.m. Kat Arrington Please Watch Me When I'm Alone So I Don't Stop Existing   2:00 p.m. Elijah Oaks A Paralytic History: Narratives of the Late South   2:15 p.m. Edgar Morales Out in the Field, There Are No More Fences   2:30 p.m. Zhenia Dubrova What Remains: Stories

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10:00 a.m. Introduction   10:15 a.m. Grace Schwab Counsel and Consequence: Intergenerational Models of Womanhood in the Novels of Jane Austen   10:30 a.m. Arielle Feuerstein "Remember who the enemy is": Liminality as a Tool for Revolution in The Hunger Games   10:45 a.m. Laurel Lee Pitts Good Neighbors   11:00 a.m. Heather Damia In a Woman's Hide: Supernatural Gender in Shakespeare's History Plays   11:15 a.m. Jiyoung Park Post Office 4640   11:30 a.m. Michaela Benton Wounded Lives: Trauma, Survival, and Slavery in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Octavia Butler's Kindred .

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Liberal Studies Student Honors Her Family, Pursues a Dream

By age 27, Katiana Krawchenko had shouted questions at then-President Donald Trump over the whir of a White House helicopter. She’d followed Melania Trump through three states as the former First Lady plugged her “Be Best” campaign against opioid addiction and cyberbullying. As a former White House Producer for CBS News, Krawchenko once set up an exclusive interview with then-Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and shared a stack of Dunkin’ Donuts with former Energy Secretary Rick Perry in the basement cafeteria of the U.S. Department of Energy.

But being interviewed herself? That was different.

“Oh, gosh, I’ve got to talk about myself?” she asked at the start of a Zoom interview. “Oh, Lord.”

But ask her to talk about what she cares about—and she cares about a lot—and a portrait emerges of the kind of student the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program was made for: a student who uses the interdisciplinary liberal studies curriculum as a framework for understanding the world and her place in it; who yearns to explore what that world offers, and what it expects of her in return.

“Georgetown has provided me with this framework to draw from all my varying experiences and channel my love of learning and curiosity,” said Krawchenko, who plans to graduate in May. “I’ve been able to think about them and apply them to this wonderful program. And it’s given me just a broader view of the world and a chance to explore issues, topics, and people that I wouldn’t have otherwise.”

A Different Kind of Master’s Degree

The terms “liberal arts” and “ liberal studies ” are often used interchangeably, but they are not the same thing, said Charles McNelis, faculty director of the liberal studies programs at Georgetown. “Liberal arts” is an umbrella term, encompassing all the sciences and humanities. Students in the liberal arts typically take a varied curriculum before focusing on a particular major. By contrast, liberal studies “takes an integrated view of those areas and blends them into one curriculum.”

Because it asks students to explore connections across disciplines, liberal studies puts a premium on creativity, initiative, and problem-solving. This program is not for everyone, but for those who are eager to explore these connections—and the connections between their studies, their work, and their lives overall—liberal studies can be a great fit.

“These students show up every day, prepared,” said Assistant Dean Trey Sullivan. “They operate with a sense of humility. They operate with a sense of deep hospitality in the way they approach the intellectual process, come to the classroom ready to defend their viewpoint and their perspective, but also make space, in a spirit of open-mindedness, for other perspectives and other ideas. Katiana, in my experience, is in that group.”

Making a Change

Krawchenko left CBS in 2019 and is now senior director, broadcast media, for Avoq , an advocacy firm that assists companies and organizations—particularly those concerned with social justice and public health issues—in promoting their messages. She values her seven years at the network and said it was “the best communications education I could have asked for.” But, despite all the excitement and glamor (at least, as seen from the outside), she felt there was something about it that didn’t quite fit. She wanted to make a difference with the journalism training she received at the University of Florida. And working with the White House press corps and chasing the latest story—sometimes about something as apparently trivial as one politician insulting another—didn’t seem to be the best way to accomplish that.

So, as she has many times in the past, she went to her grandmother for advice. Krawchenko’s ancestors emigrated from Ukraine to rural Manitoba in 1896 and struggled enormously for several generations. And while her grandmother’s life was not as hard as her forebears, she also grew up poor. She told Krawchenko stories about taking care of her younger brother when they were children, and how she would boil potatoes for dinner, then feed him “the actual potato” while she ate the skin.

“I struggled with, you know, ‘God, my ancestors were suffering,’” Krawchenko recalls thinking. “‘What I’m dealing with is nothing compared to that.’ And my grandmother told me that sometimes you have to pick up your bootstraps” and go in a different direction.

The Perfect Program 

Even while she was at CBS, Krawchenko wanted to pursue more education, and eventually, she would become the first in her family to earn a graduate degree. She said her undergraduate training in journalism was excellent but was largely technical, and she felt there were big gaps in her knowledge.

In 2018, she took a sample course in a liberal studies program—“1960s: Decade of Transformation,” taught by Gregory Havrilak, Ph.D.—“and loved it, absolutely loved it.” But at the time she thought her schedule was too packed to consider the program.

However, during the pandemic, she felt it was time to take that step.

Originally, she planned to concentrate her studies on Russian history and politics because of her family’s Ukrainian background and Ukraine’s fraught relationship with its neighbor. But in the Statement of Purpose section of her application, she also talked about applying “studies of racial inequality, public health, history, and ethics at Georgetown” to her work helping organizations “shape their change-making messages.” Her master’s thesis explains why expanding broadband connectivity in underserved areas that are often rural and poor is critical to public health.

A Source of Inspiration

If that subject harkens back to her Statement of Purpose, it is no coincidence. In that statement, Krawchenko talked about her ancestors, who immigrated to Canada more than a century ago, and how their perseverance during that first brutal winter inspires her today.

“Needs assistance bad” is how a government visitor described most of the 36 immigrant households he surveyed, whose houses were literally dug into the soil, she wrote. “He recalled my great-great grandfather Pietro Strumbicki’s home as one with ‘8 souls, small house, children all small, no stock, no nothing.’”

She concluded: “I hope to make my ancestors proud and have them know that starting with ‘no nothing’ inspires me every day to do the best that I can in their honor."

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Kennedy Hamblen

I'm Kennedy, a literature nerd and creative writer from the outskirts of Memphis. I'm also a senior here at Dartmouth. When I'm not working in admissions as a senior fellow, I'm a student employee at the library and a research and teaching assistant in the English department. I love music (I collect vinyl!) and analyzing teen drama TV (think Riverdale and Pretty Little Liars). I'm currently applying to law schools. I've had such a great time at Dartmouth and am excited to share that with you!

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My English Honors Thesis: Chapter Three

Kennedy's d-plan, fall hanover, nh.

Professor McCann is my advisor, but that's not the only reason I took this class. Since it was a senior seminar with only 9 students, we got to dive deep into the fascinating material, including with Victorian-era pulp fiction books, advertisements, and psychological treatises, plus some good old fashioned canonical works like The Picture of Dorian Gray and Dracula. [Fun fact: I've read Dracula three times at Dartmouth... it's an English department favorite!]

Winter Hanover, NH

This was an off term for me, but I love Hanover so much I hung around anyways! I worked for admissions and Baker-Berry Library, read a ton of J.G. Ballard, and stared out the window at the snow for an embarrassingly long amount of time. I also visited my parents in Tennessee during Christmas.

Spring Hanover, NH

Professor Nachlis went out of his way to act as an unofficial pre-law advisor for all of us in this class, not only by introducing us to some of the most pressing issues in American government, but also by dedicating the final two weeks of class to a module called "Should you go to law school?" A question I was asking myself!

Summer Hanover, NH

Another off term again, and this time I'm working full-time for admissions as a senior fellow! I'm also doing a lot of preliminary reading for my honors thesis. Anyone heard of Friedrich Kittler's Discourse Networks? Well, I'll have read it twice by the time this term is over.

So, actually, this "chapter" of my blog post series about my English thesis is going to cover two chapters of my actual thesis because I wrote an additional chapter. Oops.

Also, here are Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 .

But the two authors are, despite all of their differences, writing (approximately) at the same time. And just as Aldous Huxley and William Burroughs wrote contemporaneously despite producing vastly different material, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention that a lot of seniors are doing honors theses and other capstone projects alongside me. Spencer (whom I've interviewed about the history major) is polishing up his amazing rhetorical analysis of English Naval sermons during the Interregnum. Eliza, another senior fellow and English major, is writing about narrative constructions of madness in Victorian gothic novels. And I have friends writing and researching on everything from natural history to hip-hop in the Philippines to lead in baby teeth from the 1950s. I cannot stress how accessible independent study and projects are at Dartmouth if you want to do them. Just as I have had multiple professors go out of their way to advise me, read and comment upon my work, and help orient me in unfamiliar areas of study, so too have I heard from my friends and acquaintances that they are well-supported in their projects, whatever those may look like.

And while I could talk about these guys for… well, probably at least 60 double-spaced pages, seeing as that's the amount of space their respective chapters take up in my thesis, I instead want to talk about why I am doing this project. Interest, firstly, and I will likely never get a chance to write something like this again. But also, what theses and other independent research projects allow you to do as an undergraduate is undertake a prolonged research project for the first time in a relatively low-stakes environment. When I'm in law school, I'll need that skillset—not only the writing ability, but the know-how to find and organize materials for a large, ongoing research question. You learn best by doing, and that's what this is—actively trying for yourself something a lot of people don't get to do until graduate school or their career. It's a little headstart that can mean a lot.

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