Honors Contracts

Honors Contracts are independent projects proposed by Pathways students, guided by faculty mentors. These projects enable a student to construct a project in lieu of a course or within a course.

There are four kinds of projects, each of which requires the completion of a contract form

• Independent Study
• Course Expansion: Taking a course offered in the regular curriculum but working with the instructor/mentor to develop a project that would expand the unit total of the course.
• Course Conversion: Taking a course offered in the regular curriculum but working with the instructor to transform the course requirements into a project that encourages the student's initiative and creativity, thereby designating the course as Honors.
• Graduate Course

Examples of Honors Contracts

• Salvador Dali and his Celebrated Works in Comparision to the Works of Leonora Carrington
• Genetics: Abnormalities of the Sex Chromosomes
• The Last Emperor
• Building Rapport in the Classroom through Children's Literature
• The Astonishing Life and Cultural Legacy of Galla Placidia Augusta

• Technology and Practical Application of Microarray (Genechip) Analysis
• Managing the Pain of Childbirth: Alternatives to Analgesia
• Native American Juvenile Literature:Through the Eyes of a Teacher