Honors

Honors in Cinema and Media Studies

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The honors thesis is an opportunity for you to produce a larger, more sustained and ambitious project than anything you have embarked on in your undergraduate education. It is also a significant undertaking. You should do an honors thesis if you have a project in mind that you feel compelled to complete, a topic that you feel driven to explore at length and in depth. Honors work in CAMS requires commitment to a multi-stage, year-long process that results in a roughly 70-100-page document (12pt double-spaced, including bibliography) or a production project accompanied by a 20-page essay. The size, depth, and scope of an honors project constitute its greatest satisfactions, giving students greater leeway to engage in comprehensive research, creative work, and creative critique.