The program provides a series of interdisciplinary honors courses which satisfy selected general education requirements. Participation in the program culminates in an honors research project, typically during the senior year.
The senior students of the University Honors Program are pleased to share their research with a broader audience.
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Submissions from 2003
The Threefold Journey: Development of Home, Society, and Psyche, Nathan Heller
The United States Justice System, Kristen Hegar
Two hundred years of dining in "middle class" American homes, Janet Kraft
Submissions from 2002
Anti-Semites or Patriots? The American Response to the Holocaust, Mac Brodt
Cognitive load and driving : the effect of cell phone use on driving ability, Stephen J. Doherty
Filling in the Blanks: Juxtaposition in Creative Writing, Carl Yost
Influence and Free Will, Sharon A. Hewitt
Invitation to Deixis: Bilingualism, Identity and the Reader in Latina Literature, Tana Liu
Piecing Together Tom, Sarah Cathleen Smith
The Effects of Caffeine on Human State Dependent Learning, Nicole Miller
The Natural Trumpet: A Stepping Stone, Angela M. Lykins
The Search for Salman Rushdie: Migration and Identity in "The Satanic Verses", Victor James Sensenig
Women of the Bible: Nearly Nameless--Never Forgotten, Noreen M. Livoti
[Writings], Lisa Rieck
Submissions from 2001
Dante's Virgils, Victor James Sensenig
Promising Regeneration: Religious Symbolism in Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment", Sarah Cathleen Smith
'Use Desdemona Well': Orson Welles's and Oliver Parker's Filmic Interpretations of Shakespeare's Othello, Kimi Cunningham