Psychology department Honors program

The psychology department does not take lightly the honors designation appended to the BA degree. The department chooses to reserve this honor for those students who have done exceptional academic work. Since the existing course requirements already include several major writing and research requirements, students wishing an honors designation will not be required to do additional work outside of the current course load.  They will however have to show the ability to meet these existing requirements at a level that clearly shows unusual excellence.   Students receiving the honors designation must show exceptional achievement in three areas:

1. Mastery of disciplinary content
2. Ability to conduct research in the discipline
3. Ability to present findings in a public forum

The department will recommend any psychology major for the honors designation who meets all of the following requirements:

1. Is recommended by the Student Life Department as someone who has taken Goshen College core values and community standards seriously.
2. Is recommended by the departmental faculty as someone who has actively shown interest in the discipline of psychology that goes beyond classroom performance.
3. Has completed a psychology internship/practicum and received strong affirmation from supervisor.
4. Has completed a psychological research project requiring the use of descriptive and inferential statistics.
5. Has a GPA of at least 3.80 in psychology courses.
6. Has presented a minimum of two different papers at academic conferences. One of these may be a presentation at the annual on-campus student forum.