What is an Honors contract?
It allows Honors students to earn 3 Honors credits in a course. The student usually proposes an idea for the contract (paper, presentation, performance, etc.), though you may also assign work for the student, if that is preferable for you.
There will be a list at the bottom of this announcement of previously proposed projects for Honors contracts.
What is the process for the Honors contract?
After discussing the project with you, the student submits the contract online, and you will immediately receive an email that describes the plan.
The email comes from Microsoft Power Apps and Power Automate (microsoft@powerapps.com) or Microsoft Flow (maccount@microsoft.com) where you can accept or reject the proposal.
If you do not receive an approval email, you can locate the contract in Teams by clicking on the bell icon in the upper left corner. Please respond to the request for approval in 7 days.
Contracts are due by Sept. 20.
Questions?
Please email the University Honors Director (schoeneck@hartford.edu), or your Honors College Coordinator.
Examples of previous Honors contracts:
CMM 452 Special Problems in Media: Mini documentary covering the history of race and racial inequality and its effect on popular culture specifically in the medium of television.
FIN 451 Intermediate Financial Management: Research project entailing a multivariate time series forecast for a currency using dependent macroeconomic variables.
ME 242 Acoustic Engineering by Design: Use of ODEON to create sample rooms to test reverberation time in, and prepare a few audio examples for each room.
NUR 360P Psychosocial Issues in Nursing Practice: Create an educational pamphlet on issues in mental health which patients need help with (i.e. stress management, depression).
AFL 499 Applied Flute: Recorded performance of five commonly requested piccolo orchestral excerpts.
UISC 155D Fact and Fiction: Culture Clashes in Literature and Film: Reflection paper on Toni Morrison's book, Beloved.
HTA 410 Voice for the Actor VI: Memorize a Shakespeare monologue in one of the dialects we will learn this semester. I will also score the monologue in IPA to demonstrate my understanding of phonetics. I will then perform it in class to be critiqued.
DFA 270 Dance Kinesiology I: Research paper and presentation on hyper-mobility and dance, specifically, how to use hyper-mobility to your advantage as a dancer but also how to control it to prevent injuries.
SDB 110 Effective Speech: Produce an 8-10 song album on topics including the cost of education, and food at the University of Hartford.