Many of our IAS honors students will take IAS 3980 Honors Research as part of their major requirements. When students to try to enroll in this class online, the enrollment system will list the following prerequisites: admission to the Honors Program, permission of instructor and junior standing. The student must obtain the Honors research form from the Honors College, to be filled out by the student and the professor he/she will be working with. On this form they will describe the project, write a working bibliography (not all that inclusive at the beginning point), and state how the student will be graded. Students will be required to write a paper, the length to be determined by the student and the professor. Generally, papers are between 20-25 pages long. Necessary signatures on the form are student, professor, and the honors coordinator for the department or the chair. The student then must return the form to the Honors College and they will clear the stop. The IAS advisor does not clear the stop or issue permission. Our role would be to set up a 3980 section for a professor if he/she does not already have one with the IAS department.

* Note regarding Honors double majors:

Honors students with a double major must complete their honors reading and research in their primary major. Their diploma will (just like for other double majors) just indicate their primary major; the transcript will indicate that the student concurrently completed the requirements for a second major. The diploma will also have the cum laude designator. If a dual degree student wants the honors designator to both degrees, they must complete the reading and research for both “majors”; the other honors required classes can “double count”.

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