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HONORS PROGRAM

The department offers a program leading to the degree of Bachelor of Science in Physics with Honors as follows:

1. Students must submit an Honors Program Proposal to the Undergraduate Program Coordinator once they find a physics project, either theoretical or experimental, in consultation with individual faculty members. Proposal forms are available from the Physics Undergraduate Center and must be submitted by February 1 of the year in which the students’ degree will be conferred.


2. Credit for the project is assigned by the adviser within the framework of Physics 205 or Astronomy 169. The work done in the honors program may not be used as a substitute for regularly required courses.


3. Both a written report and a presentation of the work at its completion is required for honors. By mid-May, each honors candidate is required to present his or her project at the department’s Honors Presentations. (This event is publicized and is open to the general public. The expectation is that the student’s adviser and second reader, along with all other honors candidates, will attend.)


4. The decision as to whether a given independent study project does or does not merit award of honors is made jointly by the student’s honors adviser and the second reader for the written thesis. This decision is based on the quality of both the honors work and the other work in physics.