How does the Honors Project work?

Julianne Cyr gets ready to give her senior honors presentation

During the senior year, Honors Program students design and complete a supervised, interdisciplinary project consisting of a written and oral component. The project gives honors students the unique opportunity to work on an individual basis with a faculty member. A variety of honors projects have been completed over the years and some have even led to publications in academic journals. Several students have presented work related to their honors projects at professional conferences.

Some Honors Projects and the students who completed them during the past several years include:

Mathematics and Music – Josh Allen
J. Edgar Hoover’s Relationship with the Public (1924-1972) – Ashley Ball
It's not How is Your Intelligence, but What is Your Intelligence: A Look at Multiple Intelligences and How It Applies to the Classroom - Aubrey Bonorden
Women's Sports Teams: A Look at the Relationship Among Intrateam Relations, Perceived Performance, and Athlete Satisfaction on Women's Collegiate Sports Teams – Mikey Case
Sex and God: A Study of NCWC Students and how Religion affects their Sexual Decisions – Julianne Cyr
The Winding Road: Women Walking Through Disney Animated Films – Jenna Davis
Predicting the Presidential Vote: A Comparison of Two Theories – Caitlin George
Antioxidant Capacity in Urine with the Consumption of Muscadine Grape Juice - Barbara DeRatt
Parents and My Sex Life: How Perceived Parenting Style Affects Risky Sexual Behavior - Oprah Ellis
Creating a Baseball Formula – Brock Griffin
The Red Zone Project: HIV/AIDS Awareness amongst Male College Athletes - Katanya Hall
Immigration: A Comprehensive Approach - Martha Hernandez
The Correlation Between the Wingate Anaerobic Test and Skill Related Field Tests In Division III Women's Soccer Players - Meredith Hester
Correlates of Wingate Anaerobic Power Test and Physical Performances Indices in College Football Players - Alex Ivey
Capturing Life: A Study of Virginia Woolf's Common Reader Biographies – Brandon Jones
Morality's Effect on Conformity: Helping in a Hurry - Tiara Joyner
Intimate Complicity: Poems and Paintings – Amanda Landi
Psychological Roots in Criminal Behavior: The Mind of a Violent Criminal - Chynna Laws
Ye Must Be Born Again: An Expository Study on the Process of Genuine Biblical Salvation - Ben Lilley
Turn that Talent into a Trade - Jasmine Mann
Drosophila Courtship: An Interdisciplinary Approach - Tiffany McCord
Equine Behavior – Lauren Moore
An Analysis of First and Continuing Generation College Students: Is the Generation Relevant? - Randa Moore
Bird Behaviors and Food Preference as Seasons Change - Brittany Nichols
Zoroastrianism: A Religion of Convenience - Adam Nyborg
Cooking with a Dash of Science - Kathleen Penrod
California Water Wars: Fisheries vs. Farmers - Elena Pisarik
Markov Chains and their Applications – Denise Pope
Race Anyone?: Assessing Race Relations on a Small Liberal Arts Campus - Juliana Richardson
Breaking the Stereotype: Donovan McNabb and Black Quarterbacks in the NFL – Trevor Seibert
Megas Alexandros: Literary Perspectives of Alexander the Great – Tina Sirois
Alchohol and Drug Use among College Students - Cassandra Slater
A Rose by Any Other Name: Labeling Women in American Frontier Society – Jessica Smith
Improving Campus Security...on a Budget - Jacob Strickland
White Walls and Other Ghost Stories – Veronica Vega
Scare Tactics of Informative Antics: An Examination of the Effectiveness of Sex Education Programs - Jessica Willis

“ It was my pleasure and privilege to work with Mikey on her honors thesis. It was especially rewarding for me to see her grow as a scholar and researcher. She is one of the most intelligent and hard-working students I’ve encountered at NCWC, and the research she did for her honors thesis was on the graduate level. As a result of this kind of work, Mikey ended up being accepted at three different graduate programs in psychology. “ – Fred Sanborn, Associate Professor of Psychology.