The Max Kade Center for European and German Studies

The Max Kade Center for European and German Studies offers qualified majors the option of completing a portion of their major requirements in an Honors Program. Students engage in interdisciplinary reading, consultations with faculty, and research on the overarching theme of their program of concentration. To be admitted to the program students must have obtained minimum grade point average of 3.000; complete a course on the history of the idea of Europe; identify an advisor for the thesis; submit a detailed description of their proposed program of study for approval of the director or associate director of the MKC; complete 6 hours of independent research (normally EUS 289a-289b taken in the junior year); complete 3 hours of credit in EUS 250: Senior Seminar that involves writing a senior honors thesis of ca. 60 pages and that reveals both an interdisciplinary and transnational perspective; successfully defend the honors thesis before a committee normally consisting of the advisor, the director of the Max Kade Center, and the associate director of the Max Kade Center (usually in the second semester of the senior year). Another European Studies faculty member may substitute for one of the above.

Information concerning the Honors Program is available from the director of the Max Kade Center. College regulations governing honors programs may be found in the undergraduate catalog under Honors Programs, Special Programs for Arts and Science.

Requirements of the honors program are as follows: completion of 9 hours of independent research, including European studies 289a–289b, normally taken in the junior year, and 299a–299b, to be taken in the senior year; completion of a senior thesis in the context of 299a–299b; and completion of an honors comprehensive written and oral examination in the second semester of the senior year.

Information concerning the honors program is available from the director of the Center for European Studies. College regulations governing honors programs may be found in the College of Arts & Science catalog under Honors Programs, Special Programs for Arts and Science.

For more information, please contact Ann Oslin.