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Departmental Honors Program

The departmental honors program is designed to provide outstanding students with an in-depth training in Arabic or Persian.

Such students are encouraged to enroll in this program in their junior or senior year.

Honors students must complete a minimum of two courses:

  1. N399 Reading for Honors (3 cr.)
  2. N499 Honors Thesis (3 cr.)

Students interested in enrolling in N399 should consult the departmental honors advisors and the appropriate language supervisor for Arabic or Persian.

In N399 students will do advanced readings in Arabic or Persian in preparation for work on a research project.

N499 involves a research project leading to the completion of the student's honors thesis. This course should be taken under the supervision of the faculty tutor who guided the student in N399.

Students planning on studying Arabic may wish to review our Arabic Language Curriculum booklet.