Research-focused Honors Program
Department of Psychological Sciences

The Research-Focused Honors Program (RFHP) is designed for students interested in developing independent research skills.  Beginning the spring semester of the junior year and continuing into the spring of the senior year, students admitted into this program take a sequence of seminars and independent study courses culminating in a senior research thesis. The seminars (PSY 40400 and PSY 40500) provide a structured learning experience to help students further develop research skills initially learned in our statistics (PSY 20100) and research methods (PSY 20300) courses.  For the independent study component (PSY 39100H and 49800H), students use these skills by designing and conducting their own research project under the supervision of a faculty mentor.  Each student then presents his/her research in poster format at our annual Undergraduate Psychology Research Conference during the last semester of the program.