What is an honors thesis? How do I select a topic? What is the honors thesis seminar?

Each student writing an honors thesis works on a one-on-one basis with his or her faculty advisor. The honors thesis seminar does not meet each week. Instead the instructor of the seminar will distribute a schedule of meetings that will take place throughout the seminar at a regularly scheduled time (the time is posted in the directory of classes). Students writing a senior thesis in economics must be able to attend the honors seminar when it meets. During the seminar thesis writers will be required to present their research at various stages of the thesis and to take questions from the seminar participants.
The honors thesis should represent a substantial amount of individual research on a topic of your own choosing. The topic that you choose should be both one that you are particularly motivated to study and with which you already have some familiarity. Your familiarity with the subject may arise from either a classroom or a work experience. Your faculty advisor will help focus your topic but he or she will not give you a topic.