REQUIREMENTS FOR HONORS

Application process

Students should apply for honors by the end of the winter quarter of their junior year. This involves submitting an application for honors to the Student Services Officer. As part of the application, the student must write a researchproposal describing the honors project and have it approved by the faculty advisor.

If the project involves human subjects, the student will need to participate in the human subjects training and obtain approvals for conducting the research. See the Stanford Human Subjects Research page for further information.

Funding for honors research is available through the Office of Undergraduate Advising and Research. Please note that requests for summer funding are due in early April.

The structure of the honors program

Honors students take a total of 60 units. These must include the 50 units for the major, ten additional units (typically fulfilled in the senior year by 199. Independent Study and 198. Honors Research; see below), and an honors thesis based on research conducted with a principal adviser who must be a member of the Linguistics faculty, and a secondary faculty adviser, who may, with the approval of the Undergraduate Studies Committee, be a member of another department.

In the Fall of the senior year, honors students enroll in Linguistics 199, Independent Study, to work closely with one of the advisers on the research project.

In Winter and Spring quarter of the senior year honor students register in Linguistics 198, Honors Research, with the principal adviser for close supervision of the honors thesis.

Be sure to sign up to graduate with honors on Axess BOTH in the Department AND with the Registrar.

The thesis must be submitted in final, acceptable form by May 15th, with a signature page signed by the principal adviser and second reader, and an abstract for posting on the Web. Note that three copies of the thesis are needed: one for each faculty member and one for the Department.

The thesis topic will be presented orally at a department Honors Colloquium late in Spring Quarter. A copy of the thesis will be filed in the Linguistics Library.

Students will meet in an honors workshop (1 unit of 198, Honors Research is available) each of Winter and Spring quarters, to share questions and findings. This workshop will also serve as a writing and oral presentation workshop with focus on preparing focus on preparing for presentations in the Spring quarter Honors Colloquium.