FACULTY OF ARTS

HONORS AND COMBINED HONORS PROGRAMS

The Faculty of Arts offers four-year programs leading to a BA. Honors programs in a single subject are designed for students with a special interest in that subject, and provide them with the opportunity to concentrate their work in a particular field. Each program introduces students to the subject as a whole, and gives them some degree of mastery of it. A minimum of fifteen courses (including both principal courses and options) is required in the three senior years.

The structure of each honors program is established by the Department concerned. Since there is often choice among the principal courses and because, in general, options are chosen by the student (in consultation with the Department), honors programs are flexible enough to permit a variety of patterns within the regulations outlined above. The following patterns are two examples:

1. A program of courses that will lead to a degree in one subject, which is supported by related courses in other subjects. Students may, for instance, take a degree in Honors English or French, and concentrate on the Medieval period, choosing from the following courses: Medieval English, Medieval French Literature, Medieval and Jacobean Drama, Spanish Literature from the Medieval to the Baroque Period, Medieval History, Medieval Art, Medieval Philosophy, and (a Comparative Literature course) Everyday Life in the Middle Ages.
2. A program of courses that will lead to a degree in one subject supported by courses in other subjects that may or may not be related to the honors subject but which are of interest to the student.