{"id":40,"date":"2010-05-24T17:52:31","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T17:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hub-dev.bates.edu\/sociology\/?page_id=40"},"modified":"2014-09-25T09:49:40","modified_gmt":"2014-09-25T13:49:40","slug":"honors-theses","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/sociology\/thesis\/honors-theses\/","title":{"rendered":"Honors theses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All students are required to write a one-semester thesis as part of the requirements for the major\u00a0in sociology.<\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in earning Departmental Honors by completing an Honors\u00a0Thesis, you should begin by planning for a fall semester thesis, and should indicate to your\u00a0assigned thesis advisor that you would like to be considered for Departmental Honors. In November, the Department will meet to review summaries submitted by students\u00a0interested in honors consideration. On the basis of the quality of work, as well as\u00a0each student\u2019s overall performance in coursework within the major, a few students will be invited\u00a0to continue their thesis work during the winter semester as honors thesis work. The following are\u00a0required for consideration for Departmental Honors in sociology:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>must have a GPA within the major of at least 3.67, and should have a GPA of at least 3.67 overall as well.<\/li>\n<li>completion of a fall semester senior thesis deemed by the Department\u2019s faculty to be of\u00a0sufficient scope and quality to be considered for honors\u00a0Students hoping to participate in the Honors Program should plan their winter semester courses as\u00a0if they will not be enrolling for a second semester of thesis, and make adjustments as appropriate\u00a0once honors invitations have been extended by the Department.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Students continuing their thesis work in the second semester for the Departmental Honors\u00a0Program may collect additional data\/evidence, further develop their analysis of evidence they\u00a0collected in the fall, deepen their review of the existing scholarly literature on their topic, and\u00a0revise the written work in their fall semester thesis. The College requires that students being\u00a0considered for Departmental Honors submit their final thesis by early March. Later in March,\u00a0honors candidates are required to defend their thesis orally, before a panel of sociology faculty,\u00a0other Bates faculty from outside the Department, and an outside expert in the student\u2019s field of\u00a0interest. It is on the basis of the final thesis, as well as this oral defense, that the panel makes a\u00a0final determination of whether a student will receive Departmental Honors.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Questions?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>All of this information may leave you with questions, and any member of the department will be\u00a0glad to talk with you about the senior thesis process, the department\u2019s expectations, and\/or your\u00a0particular thesis ideas. As for all students who complete a senior thesis at Bates, this is a\u00a0substantial and potentially intimidating process. But it is also an experience that most Bates\u00a0alumni report was of lasting significance for them. We hope all sociology majors will feel free to\u00a0ask for help, and for answers to any questions that may arise, as they embark on this experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All students are required to write a one-semester thesis as part of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":28,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_prepend":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append_before_footer":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"class_list":["post-40","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40\/revisions\/288"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}