Each honors student will work with the advisor and a second reader, who will be chosen by the advisor in conjunction with the student. Members of the department will respond with suggestions for ways of improving or sharpening the student's approach to the subject. Advisors will meet with students after the colloquium to discuss the department's suggestions, and in the remaining month of the semester the student will revise the project accordingly and begin drafting the thesis. The student should submit draft portions of the project to the advisor and the second reader when they are available, ideally beginning in the early weeks of the spring semester, but no later than one week before spring vacation begins, when a rough draft of the project is due.
Final versions are due approximately ten days before the last day of classes for spring semester.
The student will then defend the thesis in an oral examination with the department, to be held soon after the last day of classes. The supervising instructor, with advice from the second reader, will assign the final grade for Honors.