This course provides a classroom-support format to assist Honors students with developing a firm foundation for research in advance of their final year of study. Most thesis writing will be done under the direction of the thesis advisor and committee, hence assignments in HCOL 3101H are structured to prompt students toward engaging best practices?generically, and in their specific field of study?in preparing to complete thesis work. The course?s ultimate objective is to provide context, structure, third-party scholarly guidance, and a supportive community of peers to promote excellence and expediency in fulfilling the final requirement for graduation with Latin Honors.

This course provides a classroom-support format to assist Honors students with the completion of the Honors thesis during their final year of study. Most thesis writing will be done under the direction of the thesis advisor and committee, hence assignments in HCOL 3102H are structured to prompt students toward engaging best practices?generically, and in their specific field of study?in completing thesis work. The course?s ultimate objective is to provide context, structure, third-party scholarly guidance, and a supportive community of peers to promote excellence and expediency in fulfilling the final requirement for graduation with Latin Honors.

In this second semester of the CBS thesis support course, honors students will continue work initiated Biol 4960H to develop/draft/revise results/methods/discussion sections of thier honors thesis. In addition, they will prepare and present a professional research poster at the University of Minnesota Undergraduate Research Symposium in April. The complete thesis will be assessed by two or three faculty readers against standards outlined in CBS Thesis Assessment Rubric. Students who have not yet fulfilled an upper division WI course in the biological sciences should concurrently register for their major's version of WI directed research or WI directed studies (for example, MicB 4794W or 4793W). The completed and approved thesis will count for the WI.

This course provides a foundation for how to conduct individually-pursed research with a focus on writing and methods. While it is designed to support Carlson School students writing their honors thesis, students do not need to continue with a thesis to successfully complete the course. In order to both develop your individual thesis as well as learn research methods and writing techniques over the course of a single semester, there will be parallel sets of assignments: one for your thesis (individual) and one for a practice thesis (group). During the first part of the course, your individual thesis project will be emphasized, focusing on finding a thesis topic related to the research of Carlson School faculty who will be supervisors for this academic year. Starting partway through the course, you will be paired with a group of students to work on a practice thesis in which methods, statistical analysis, and writing results are emphasized using pre-specified datasets. Writing is integrated fully into the course. You will be instructed in writing pertinent to research proposals and scholarship, including problem statements, annotated bibliographies, literature reviews, methodology, and reference lists. prereq: Senior honors student

Systematic inquiry in interpreting/evaluating research. Implement study proposed in Nurs4205V. Write scholarly research report, which will serve as honors research thesis. prereq: Honors student in School of Nursing, Nurs 4205V, upper division statistics course

In this course, students will improve their research skills in preparation to write their senior theses. Students will enter with a few ideas for topics about which they might like to write their theses. They will leave the class with a clear and tractable research question, a literature review that describes how this question fits in with the existing scholarly literature, and a research design that will enable them to answer the question. Along the way, they will advance their understanding of what constitutes political science research and how to conduct political science research. Students will be graded on the basis of drafts of their annotated bibliography, literature review and research design, a class presentation of the ?front half? of their senior thesis, and class participation including short weekly assignments. Students are expected to keep up with the reading and, most importantly, to begin to conduct their own independent research. prereq: Pol sci major, honors

Practical experience conducting psychological research. Preparation for completion of honors thesis. Research ethics, practical aspects of conducting psychological research, writing research reports. Students assist faculty and advanced graduate students in research. prereq: [3001W or 3001V], psych major, honors

This is the second course in the two-course Honors Capstone Experience. In Soc 4978V, students will complete their data collection and analysis while the focus of the seminar turns to scholarly writing, and particularly to drafting and refining arguments. The Department of Sociology does not make any initial distinction between Honors students who are seeking cum laude, magna cum laude, or summa cum laude levels of Latin Honors. Instead, our focus is on helping students to develop ambitious and high-quality original research papers of which they can be justifiably proud and which can serve as testaments to their abilities. The Department of Sociologys approach is to support every Honors student as they plan and conduct summa-level work. The ultimate recommendation for level of latin honors is made by the committee at the time of the thesis defense. In addition to the Honors thesis requirements, the recommendation for summa-level honors is reserved for the papers that demonstrate the following criteria: - Tight integration between a clearly defined question or thesis and the research presented; - Ambitious original research design, with research completed on time and analyzed appropriately; - Integration of ongoing conversations in the research literature into the design and analysis of the data gathered; - Powerful and precise prose which weaves together evidence and argument and which is attentive to both the lessons and limits of the data. Students will do an Oral Defense and participate in a panel presentation at the spring Sociological Research Institute (SRI). The Sociology Department requires completion of Soc 4977V/4978V to graduate with Latin Honors. prereq: 1001/1011V, 3701, 3801, 3811, 4977V, and at least 12 upper-division SOC credits; Sociology honors major & department consent

Students will learn how to critically review research articles and how to write a thesis literature review, methods, results, and discussion section. Students will choose to write a systematic literature review or conduct a research study under the guidance of their adviser. Students will write and provide peer reviews for the thesis literature reviews and methods sections. Instruction regarding writing a results and discussion section will be provided. Students are encouraged to register for this course the semester before their expected graduation term. Prerequisites: Honors student and Kinesiology major, PAHP major, or SMGT major