Honors Faculty Resources

Honors Option Contracts

• Honors Option Contracts are agreements between students and faculty that allow honors credit to be awarded to a student enrolled in a regular section of a course upon completion of a significant honors experience or project.
• H-Option requests originate with the student who should work with you to develop the terms of the honors contract.  Once the form is completed, you will receive an email to approve the form.  Forms are due by the 14th day of the course semester (7th class day for term and summer classes).
• Honors will contact faculty via email in the last two weeks of class to certify (or deny) completion of the terms of the contract and awarding of honors credit.  Certification must take place prior to the last day of class.
• Current as of Spring 2024: The H-Option contract process has moved completely online. Click the contract button below for the new electronic form.
• PLEASE NOTE: SELU email access is necessary for entry into the form.

Thesis Director and 2nd Reader Resources

What is an Honors Thesis?

The Honors Thesis is a significant research or creative project that every honors student completes with the guidance of a faculty member and then presents before an audience of peers in the senior year. 

• Usually students work on the project over two semesters – designing the project with a faculty director and gathering data over one semester, and writing and reporting results over the next.  H-option courses can be used to help lay the groundwork for a solid thesis.
• Most student theses are academic research projects that ask a research question, investigate previous research on the topic and then seek to answer, test, and/or explore that research question through methodologies and analyses appropriate to the student’s discipline.  Other theses take an artistic path to produce a significant creative work. Students in creative writing, music and performing arts, and visual art and design often take on these kinds of creative projects for their senior theses.

Honors Thesis Handbook for Students

One resource that may help you as you oversee a student authoring a thesis is the Senior Thesis Handbook Honors students receive.

Honors Committee

The University Honors Committee is comprised of faculty and students who advise, evaluate and make recommendations to the Provost regarding the University Honors Program.

To inquire about becoming a member please call (985) 549-2135 or email [email protected].