Heltzer Honors Thesis/Project
All students wishing to graduate with Honors from the Heltzer Honors Program must complete a minimum three hour Honors Thesis or Project (larger thesis/projects requiring more hours are possible). These intense, individually designed and directed experiences demand a great deal of both student and mentor, but the rewards are just as great. As a smaller version of a Master’s thesis, this experience should immerse the student in the field they are studying and provide them an immediate and intimate engagement with the material they are studying. In many cases, the work is an extension of the mentor’s own scholarship and may lead to results that can be presented locally or nationally. This is the ideal case, but is not required.
More information including forms, guidelines and more can be found at Senior Honors Thesis/Project Information.
For examples of Thesis titles and to learn about what students have written about in the past click here.
One option for students completing their thesis is The Public Service Research Program (PSRP).
The Public Service Research Program (PSRP) is for all undergraduate students in any major who would like to apply their academic skills/research interests to a real social problem through community-based research (CBR). CBR, in the simplest terms, is research that is conducted with and for, not on, members of a community. In CBR, you collaborate with the community agency to help them answer a research question that they have. It's like traditional academic research, in that you use rigorous methods to study the problem. But unlike most academic research, CBR also means you come up with an action plan for what the community agency can do with the results of the research. Visit http://psrp.appstate.edu/ for more information.
