Application for Admission to Honors Study in the ...



Application for Admission to the

Honors Program in the Department of History, October 12, 2020

DUE NO LATER THAN FRIDAY, OCT. 30, 2020 BY 12:00 noon. Please send this form and other materials COMBINED into ONE PDF* document to the History Department Administrative Assistant II, Rebekah.J.Huddleston@vanderbilt.edu. For questions regarding the application process, please email Ms. Huddleston.

Name ________________________________________ Date ______________

Student ID # _______________________Preferred e-mail address __________________________

Recommending faculty member from History Department: __________________________

*(Please ask the faculty member to e-mail a letter of recommendation to the Rebekah Huddleston at, Rebekah.J.Huddleston@vanderbilt.edu by noon on Friday, October 30.)

State your overall GPA here ______ State your GPA for the History major here_______

Students majoring in Economics & History or Law, History, and Society: please give both your GPA in the interdisciplinary major and your GPA in history courses here: ___________________

Any student who plans to study abroad during the spring semester of the junior year must check here_____.  In such cases, admission to the program is provisional, pending review of the student’s record for the junior year and submission of a successful thesis prospectus, due no later than June 15, 2021.  Students in this situation should remain in regular contact with the instructor of History 3980 over the course of the semester.

Please Include the following in your Combined PDF* Application Document:

●A print-to-PDF* of your most current degree audit form showing courses counting toward your major. Using the degree audit on YES, "collapse" everything except expand the "GPA in History" tab before taking a screen shot. Print-to-PDF* the screen shot. Make sure the history courses, with grades, show up. Students in one of the interdisciplinary programs should show courses counting toward the major, as well as any additional history courses taken.

●A Word Document printed-to-PDF* of one paragraph of no more than 250 words describing your area of historical interest as specifically as possible. If you plan to work in an area for which the principal primary sources are not in English, you should be able to read sources in the original language. Before submitting your application, consult with a faculty member in history with relevant expertise about possible topics, the availability of sources, and language skills (where applicable). You should also feel free to consult with the Director of the Honors Program, Professor Frank Wcislo.

●A print-to-PDF* sample of your best writing to date from a history class, —this could be an essay you submitted; your final paper for HIST 3000w, etc

*The easiest method to combine all required application elements is to copy and paste all information into one WORD Document as listed: Application Form> Degree Audit> Description of Area of Research Interest> Sample of Writing. Then print to Adobe or Microsoft PDF, save, and attach to email submission.

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Students in the history honors program write a thesis on a topic of their choice, based on original research. The skills in research and writing that they acquire will later serve them well in a broad range of occupations.

Each student will be assigned a faculty mentor with appropriate expertise. All students take a three-semester sequence of courses in which they get feedback on their work from fellow students and the course instructor. In History 3980, the Junior Honors Seminar, they deepen their understanding of historical research, analysis, and writing and produce a proposal for the thesis. History 4980-4981, the Senior Honors Seminar, is devoted to the presentation and discussion of draft chapters of theses in progress. In the spring semester of the senior year, History 4999 recognizes the effort required to complete the thesis by conferring an additional 3 hours of credit; it does not involve additional class meetings. In all, students receive 12 hours of credit for the honors program, all of which count toward the 30 hours required for the history major.

Theses will become eligible to be e-archived at the Vanderbilt Library and will be accessible on the Web for years to come. One honors student will receive the Dewey Grantham Award, presented for the best honors thesis in the History Department. It comes with a cash award of $500 and will be announced on our Web pages and mentioned in the Commencement Program. Since the inception of the honors program in 1985, 177 history majors have successfully defended an undergraduate honors thesis.

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