BIOL 499 Departmental Honors

Prerequisite: By invitation of the department. The departmental honors paper is a two-semester senior-year program designed for students who wish to pursue intensive research or special projects in close coordination with faculty advisers. Departmental honors students are known as the Christine P. Tischer Scholars and receive 6 credits for this work. Students taking this course to satisfy the capstone requirement are required to also take the ETS Major Field Test in Biology during finals week.