Honors Program
This program is designed to offer a few exceptional theater majors the opportunity to have their Senior Capstone Project considered for an award of departmental honors at graduation.
These students will be invited by the faculty from the pool of Senior Capstone Project applicants. In order to qualify for Honors status, applicants must:
- Possess a proven ability to successfully complete a significant scholarly/research project as evidenced through course work and/or submission of a significant sample of scholarly writing
- Have a minimum GPA of 3.65 both overall and within the department
In addition to completing the Senior Capstone Project, which serves as the basis for Honors evaluation, candidates will be required to write a thesis of approximately thirty pages* in length and defend their thesis before a committee of (at minimum) three faculty. The faculty committee will be composed of at least two departmental faculty and one faculty from outside the department. Upon successful completion of the Honors process, candidates will be awarded a standing of Honors, High Honors, or Highest Honors and notification of the award will be published in the official Commencement Program.
Students selected to participate in the Honors program will enroll in THEA 420: Honors Project, instead of THEA 425. Again, this credit may be awarded as one full course over one semester or two half courses over both semesters of the senior year.
*Students pursuing an Honors project in the fields of dramaturgy or critical inquiry are
required to write a paper of approximately sixty pages in length.