The Senior Honors Project

The Senior Honors Projects can take a variety of forms — a paper, a performance, a scientific experiment, a demonstration, a product. Whatever its form, the Project should have a written component, it should employ scholarship, and it should make an original contribution to a body of knowledge. It is similar to a Master's thesis, though not as lengthy or complex.

Topics, methods of investigation, and modes of presentation vary from discipline to discipline. Typically, students announce a problem that they wish to solve, survey background information to define and explain the problem, and present evidence and reasoning in support of a thesis or hypothesis. The student's work culminates in an original essay, an annotated creative work or performance, a scientific experiment or report, or a product.

The length of Projects depends on the topic and discipline. A project in the humanities could be a paper of 30 to 50 pages, whereas the written part of a Project in the sciences or performing arts could be shorter. The Project can focus on any topic of the student's choosing. But all Projects must be supervised by a UNCG faculty member from a department that is appropriate to the topic.