{"id":58,"date":"2017-09-28T21:16:56","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T21:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/160-linguistics\/honorsprojects\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T17:53:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T17:53:53","slug":"honorsprojects","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/linguistics\/studentopportunities\/honorsprojects\/","title":{"rendered":"Linguistics Honors Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An honors thesis is a year-long project for which students, who have demonstrated academic excellence, conduct in-depth research in a topic of their own choosing.&nbsp; Topics have ranged from purely linguistic concerns to those that cross over to fields such as political science, education, cognitive psychology, the biological sciences, and women&#8217;s and gender studies.&nbsp; Students are advised to begin their planning for the honors program as early as possible in their studies in order to meet the requirements of the program. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Linguistics Requirements:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Overall grade point average (GPA) equal to or greater than 3.30<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>GPA in Linguistics coursework of at least 3.50<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A written proposal submitted by May 1 of the junior year<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>More Linguistics Honors program information<\/strong>, including additional dates, can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/linguistics\/majorsminors\/honors\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>General information about Macalester Honors program<\/strong>, including forms, can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/academicprograms\/honorsprogram\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>Curious about past Linguistics honors projects<\/strong>? <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalcommons.macalester.edu\/do\/search\/?q=linguistics&amp;start=0&amp;context=1156440&amp;facet=\">Click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An honors thesis is a year-long project for which students, who have demonstrated academic excellence, conduct in-depth research in a topic of their own choosing.&nbsp; Topics have ranged from purely linguistic concerns to those that cross over to fields such as political science, education, cognitive psychology, the biological sciences, and women&#8217;s and gender studies.&nbsp; Students [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":54,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-58","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/linguistics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/linguistics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/linguistics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/linguistics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/linguistics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/linguistics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":975,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/linguistics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58\/revisions\/975"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/linguistics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/linguistics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}