Even a Fellow who, due to low grades, will not be a Westover Honors Graduate must fulfill this requirement. Successful completion of the Project requires that the Fellow learn and work outside the formal structure of a college course.
Fellows choose a faculty member to serve as committee chair and to supervise the project.
The results of the Project should be presented in a way that it is accessible to persons outside the discipline in which the research takes place. Fellows will defend their projects before a committee of at least three faculty members, including the committee chair, the Director of the Honors Program, and a faculty member who is not in the discipline addressed by the thesis. The defense will be open to the public, and an announcement of the date, time and place will be placed on the Westover listserve by the Fellow. The grade for the Project, which will be arrived at through a joint decision of the members of the committee, is based on the extent to which the Fellow demonstrates the skills and competencies identified on page 10 of this Handbook. The Senior Honors Project may take one of two forms.