<p>How many students (on average, for each concentration) do honors? I’m rather confused - a fiend at another college claims econs honors classed are horrendously easy to get into. I’m sure a substantial amount of work is involved. So how many make the cut?</p>
<p>To get a degree with honors there is a minimum GPA (different for every concentrations, typically 3.2 in sciences and 3.5 in humanities) and you must do research culminating in an honors thesis which is then judged to determine whether you receive honors.</p>
<p>Do you have any figures I can refer to?</p>
<p>What figures are you looking for?</p>
<p>Most concentration webpages will discuss the requirements to receive a degree with honors under their concentration requirements page.</p>
<p>Oh I was wondering how many people actually do honors. Did check out the IR honors papers - quite a collection.</p>
<p>I bet the admissions office could tell you. </p>
<p>I'm curious why you'd like to know though...?</p>
<p>kids at brown don't seem to really care about honors, methinks. in general, it seems to be some recognition that comes with doing a senior thesis on something.. which is of bigger importance than having the honors itself.</p>
<p>agree/disagree, people?</p>
<p>Essentially, in many (most?) fields:</p>
<p>Honors = Thesis</p>
<p>Completely agree icebox.</p>
<p>I want to find out cos it seems most honors students have to take a couple of extra classes so I'd like to plan ahead and estimate just how many courses do I have to complete a semester to accomodate the extra honors.</p>
<p>But yes, I'll definitely ask the advisors when I get here.</p>
<p>The "extra" classes apply to social sciences and humanities only and can often be counted as two of your electives in the subject area. They're a year of "research for credit" so you're doing research that semester and receiving course credit. These are often taken as fifth classes, though sometimes not depending on how much time you're looking to put into research nd the rest of your load. You need to do research to write a thesis, so by saying you have to write a thesis, many just assume that you'll know that to write that thesis you'll need at least one year of research under your belt.</p>
<p>That, of course, still has nothign to do with the number of students who get an honors degree, nor the fact that getting an honors degree means very little.</p>
<p>Then again, I'm in the sciences where everyone has to do a year of research anyway so it's not a big deal to just write a paper and submit it.</p>
<p>My daughter is a rising senior at Brown and will be doing an Honors Thesis. It equates to one course for fall semester and one for spring semester (not truly a "course", but independent research that is one of her "courses"). There were no extra classes she had to take prior to this. Not all thesis proposals are accepted. In spring of junior year, you have to do a proposal and have it accepted, in order to be able to do the senior year thesis for Honors. I don't think "Honors" is the goal as much as doing something in depth independently in your field of study. You have to get a professor who will approve of and be the advisor to your thesis. As others said, you have to have certain grades in your major also to be eligible to put in a proposal to do an Honors Thesis. I have no clue what percentage of students do these. My daughter has taken four classes every semester at Brown. I observe nothing "extra" to do the Honors Thesis. Simply, during senior year, her Thesis work will count as one "course" each semester. No extra classes were taken prior to senior year to be able to do this.</p>
<p>I'm an art major, and you can only get honors if you double major and do a project combining the two. I see where they're coming from but it doesn't really seem fair. Thoughts?</p>