[Agvisors] FW: [UPAC] Honors Thesis Prospectus

[Nancy Rodriguez Lorta]

From: upac-request at list.arizona.edu [mailto:upac-request at list.arizona.edu]
On Behalf Of Mitchell, Rebecca A - (rmitch)
Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2013 2:37 PM
To: upac at list.arizona.edu
Subject: [UPAC] Honors Thesis Prospectus

 

Hello Advisors:

 

I'm going to be sending a message to all Honors students with junior/senior
status in order to remind them that they need to submit an Honors Thesis
Prospectus if they are planning to start an Honors thesis next year.  I
thought this would be a good time to send a reminder about the prospectus to
all of you as well.

 

The prospectus requirement became effective in the Fall 2010 catalog, so our
current juniors are the first class to be impacted by it.  The Honors Thesis
Prospectus is meant to serve as a tool for students to outline their thesis
plans and to develop shared expectations with their thesis advisors.  The
prospectus is also designed to encourage students to plan ahead for the
thesis, rather than waiting until the last minute to develop a project and
find an advisor.  The Honors College requires that the prospectus be
submitted by the last day of classes in the semester PRIOR to starting the
thesis.  This means that any student who is planning to start the thesis
this fall should submit a prospectus by May 1st.

 

We have just posted a revised version of the Honors Thesis Prospectus at
http://www.honors.arizona.edu/students/Thesis.html .  This document includes
detailed thesis policies and instructions for writing the prospectus.  If
you're meeting with a student who is planning to start an Honors thesis next
semester, it would be great if you could remind them that they need to
submit a prospectus and direct them to this form.  Please also refer them to
me with any questions about thesis policies, their progress in Honors, etc.

 

You may have questions yourself as you're reading through the prospectus
form.  In particular, you may notice our policy that only tenured or
tenure-track faculty from the department in which the student is earning
Honors are eligible to serve as thesis advisors.  I  understand that some
departments allow non-tenure track faculty to advise theses, and that many
departments also allow students to work with faculty in other departments.
In these cases, we do defer to the department to make the final decision
about who is eligible to advise a thesis.  If we see that a student's
proposed advisor is someone who has regularly advised theses in the past or
who has already been assigned a 498H number in your department, we will
generally accept that as evidence that the department has approved this
person as an advisor.  If we are unsure whether an individual is eligible to
advise a thesis, we will be contacting your department for more information.

 

Let me know if you have any questions about the prospectus.  Thanks!

 

-Rebecca 

 

 

 

Rebecca Mitchell, M.Ed.   

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Senior Academic Advisor

The Honors College at The University of Arizona

rmitch at email.arizona.edu

(520) 621-6901

 

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