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Independent Study
General Guidelines
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The Honors Project is the crowning achievement of
the honors student in the Ina E. Gordy Honors
College. HO 401 and 402 provide a formal structure
for the honors project. The honors student and his
or her project committee should have copies of the
most recent guidelines for an honors project in the
student’s discipline and should follow those
guidelines unless the student’s project committee in
consultation with the Honors Director and the Honors
Faculty Committee deem a modification necessary. In
addition to those discipline guidelines, the student
and the project committee are expected to follow
these guidelines:
1. The student should select a project committee
comprised of three full-time MUW faculty members.
(The project committee, though related, is not the
same committee as the honors faculty committee.) The
project committee should include an advisor in the
research area, a reader in the department of the
research area or in an appropriate related
department, and a reader on the honors faculty
committee in the college of the research area
2. The student should conduct a substantial,
original project and use published work in the
student’s discipline as models.
3. The student should obey the university’s policies
of academic dishonesty throughout the entire
project. Failure to do so will result in the
immediate termination of the project.
4. In HO 401, the student should develop and propose
an idea for the project and should conduct most, if
not all, of the research. In some cases, that
research may entail developing a research
instrument, conducting an experiment, and, if
appropriate, receiving permission from the
Institutional Review Board. In HO 402, the student
should complete the research and conduct the
experiment, if appropriate and if not already
completed, and should write the results of the
research. Some variation may occur, depending on the
student’s project and discipline.
5. The student is expected to meet with his or her
advisor every week and is encouraged to meet with
the entire project committee at least once a
semester. The student should keep a research journal
in which to record comments from project committee
members.
6. The poster should include whatever information
best represents the student’s project at the time.
At the very least, the poster should include the
name of the student, the names of the project
committee members, the title of the project, the
thesis/hypothesis, and other information, such as
methods, definitions, and examples. The poster
should be bold and creative and should include an
appropriate mixture of text and graphics.
7. The presentation at the Research Symposium, which
should last ten minutes, should best represent the
finished project and should include audio-visual
aids. The student should strive for excellence in
the following areas of oral presentation: clarity
and organization, style of delivery, standard
language usage, supporting materials, and use of
audio-visual aids.
8. The student must submit all assignments in the
syllabus on time to the Honors Director and to all
three members of the student’s project committee.
The advisor may ask the student to complete
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