UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH             

Honors

Established in 1960, the Honors Program at Moravian College provides qualified seniors the opportunity to pursue a yearlong intensive study of a subject of special interest. To participate in Honors, students must have an overall QPA of 3.0, with 3.3 in the proposed field of study. Usually, but not always, the project is in the student’s major. Applicants must propose the topic and secure the support of a faculty member (or members) to supervise the project. In the fall term of the senior year, Honors candidates carry out their research; in the spring, they prepare the Honors paper and defend their work before a panel of five faculty and staff members, one of whom may be from another institution.    

Recent Honors theses in philosophy include:

“A Discourse on the Philosophy of Animal Rights”

 “Hermann Hesse and Friedrich Nietzsche: A  Philosophical Exploration”

Soar

SOAR (Student Opportunities for Academic Research) provides stipends, travel allowances, and expenses for students engaged in research or creative activities through close interaction with a faculty mentor. The program helps Moravian students gain a better understanding of scholarship in their discipline, and fosters scholar-colleague relationships. SOAR stipends can be as high as $3,000 for summer work.

Independent Study

The Independent Study program allows students to delve deeply into areas of personal interest with the support of senior-faculty members—an unusual opportunity at the undergraduate level.

Independent Study provides students with a chance to undertake a program of supervised reading, research, or artistic production not provided within existing courses.

The Independent Study option is available to students who have junior or senior standing with a cumulative QPA of at least 2.70. Transfer students must have completed one fall or spring term of study at Moravian College before taking on Independent
Study. An Independent Study earns one course unit. Students may schedule no more than one Independent Study or Honors course unit a term to a maximum of four over the period of the junior and senior years.

Independent Study may be taken in any term, including the summer. A student may not take more than one Independent Study during the summer and must register for it no later than the beginning of the second summer session.

 Undergraduate Conferences

CALL FOR PAPERS

$150 in prize money

Keynote address:  Will Roberts, McGill University

April 4, 2009

Washington & Jefferson College

Washington, Pennsylvania

Papers should be:  7-10 pages (15-20 minutes reading time)  Prepared for blind review (with a cover sheet containing paper title,  author’s name, college or university, class year, and e-mail address)

Send to:

Hanna Kim

Department of Philosophy

Washington & Jefferson College

60 S. Lincoln St.

Washington, PA 15301

kim@washjeff.edu

Deadline for submissions: February 15, 2009.

We welcome submissions in any sub-field of philosophy, using either Continental or Analytic methods.

Undergraduate Journals