Departmental Honors
To be considered for Departmental Honors, students must fulfill the general College requirements for honors programs. In addition, they must:
- Apply to the chair of the department during the junior year.
- Be a Religious Studies major.
- Be classified as a Senior while participating in the Program.
- Hold a GPA of 3.5 or better in major and 3.25 overall.
- Completion of Senior Honors Thesis with six hours of Independent Study on research related to thesis. The six hours of Independent Study should be split between two semesters.
- Oral defense of thesis with the faculty members of the Department
- Public presentation of thesis at appropriate forum.

