Thinking Outside the Semester Box: Enhancing the Capstone Honors Thesis Experience through Thesis Pre-Proposal Development"

To complete a two-semester Honors School thesis sequence (proposal, thesis), students accustomed to writing course papers in a semester must complete longer, better documents in less time. A pre-proposal development course enables efficient transition into and retention in the two-semester sequence, as evidenced by student testimony and thesis completion-rate data.