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The Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) repository provides online access to the university’s masters theses, doctoral dissertations, and honors theses, increasing the visibility of our scholars and fulfilling the university’s mission to contribute to academic scholarship.

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Most NBB majors participate in undergraduate research during their time at Emory. In their last year, NBB majors with research experience may consider joining the Honors Program to complete a thesis and graduate with honors in research. The choice to pursue a thesis should be made after talking with research mentors, meeting with major advisors, and considering career goals and other opportunities during senior year.

Applications for the NBB Honors Program are due the semester before the student’s last year (June 15 for graduation the following spring, for example). NBB Honors students must meet all Emory College Honors Program requirements , including the cumulative GPA and other guidelines.

Applications for the NBB Honors Program are brief and include basic information such as the mentor's name, project title, and current GPA . Any Emory faculty member in any department can be an NBB honors thesis advisor, but the project must have neuroscience and/or behavioral biology as a major focus or lens.

During senior year, NBB honors students take two research-experience courses titled "Honors Research", NBB 495A and NBB 495BW.

Participation in these courses includes at least 12 hours of work on the research project each week as well as bi-weekly meetings with other NBB researchers to develop professional skills such as navigating research ethics, presentation skills, and connecting their research to academic and professional goals.

Graduate Courses

In addition to the NBB honors research courses, students must take a graduate course. Any graduate course can be approved for this requirement as long as it is 2 credits or more, is taken for a letter grade, and passed with a C or higher.

Most students take the graduate course in spring of their senior year, but it can be taken at any time. Students generally choose the graduate course based on recommendations from their research mentors and course descriptions posted on graduate program websites.

No particular graduate program's courses are preferred, but students often take graduate courses in Psychology , Public Health , and Neuroscience .

Most NBB majors work with faculty mentors in research experiences, and many students co-author manuscripts published in leading peer-reviewed journals. However, only honors students are mentored through the process of writing and defending a thesis. Students may work with any Emory faculty member in any department for their Honors Thesis, but the project must have neuroscience and/or behavioral biology as a major focus or lens.

All student theses are published online through the university library and, after embargo to allow for data to be included in other articles, the theses are available to search .

After writing the thesis, honors students defend their work to a committee of at least three Emory faculty members.

In consultation with their faculty research mentors, honors students form their committees during the first semester of honors. Students submit the written thesis and then present an oral summary of their work to the committee.

The committee questions the student about the rationale, methods, interpretation, and overall importance of the work. Upon completion of the defense, the committee determines whether the student has earned honors.

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Deadlines and other details for current students and mentors are gathered in our Honors Packet.

Faculty and students with questions about honors in NBB should contact the Director of Undergraduate Research for NBB.

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• Emory University Electronic Theses and Dissertations Repository ~[392]~ The Emory Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) Repository holds theses and dissertations from the Laney Graduate School, the Rollins School of Public Health, and the Candler School of Theology, as well as undergraduate honors papers from Emory College of Arts and Sciences.
• Foreign Doctoral Dissertations ~[392]~ The Center for Research Libraries actively collects foreign dissertations and provides them to member institutions through interlibrary loan.
• Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) ~[392]~ Access a large collection of theses and dissertations. The NDLTD is an international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination and preservation of electronic theses and dissertations.
• ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global (A&I) ~[392]~ Official digital archive of the Library of Congress and the database of record for graduate research. Search citations to dissertations and theses from around the world from 1861 to present day, and access full text dissertations.
• Theses Canada The central access point for Canadian theses, including AMICUS, Canada's national online catalog, for bibliographic records of all theses in Library and Archives Canada's theses collection.
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Honors Program

College honors.

Honors Programs are available to outstanding students in most, but not all, areas of concentration. Administered by a faculty Honors Committee, these programs enable students to do intensive work in a chosen area and therefore involve work that extends beyond ordinary course requirements and ordinary standards of performance.

Requirements

Although all students with a cumulative average of 3.70 at the end of their first three years are eligible for these programs, final selection of participants rests with the department concerned.

Exceptions to the 3.70 average requirement may be made by the Honors Committee in individual cases upon recommendation by the department concerned. Students who wish to petition must have at least a 3.45 cumulative GPA. See department or College Honors Program Administrator ( [email protected])  for more information on the GPA waiver petition process and requirements. All Emory grades are considered in the calculation of the cumulative GPA. For example, all Emory College of Arts and Sciences and Business School grades are considered in the calculation of the cumulative GPA for Business School students who pursue honors in a major in the College. In order to graduate with honors, students must meet the requirements as outlined below over two consecutive semesters (not including summer).

Students may pursue honors in only one major or joint major.

Requirements vary slightly from department to department. They generally include enrollment in a graduate seminar or graduate course, completion of a research project or paper that is the equivalent of a BA or BS thesis, and additional supervised reading or enrollment in a special honors course. Departments that accept projects outside of a traditional honors thesis must receive permission from the Honors Committee. Since credit for the graduate work and the reading program count toward the hours required for the major, the Honors Program usually entails an increase of about four hours of credit in the major requirements.

An examination, written and/or oral, covering the honors work, including the thesis and allied fields, is given upon completion of the program. Examiners recommend the degree of honors (honors, high honors, highest honors) to the Honors Committee, which certifies the list to the registrar for printing in the commencement program and on the students' diplomas. Fourrageres indicating the degree of honors are presented to successful candidates by the college and are worn at commencement.

Levels of Honors

Honors  represents satisfactory completion of the program, with an overall average of 3.70.

High Honors  represents completion of the program with outstanding performance, including an overall average of 3.70 and a thesis of quality sufficient for oral presentation to scholars in the candidate's field.

Highest Honors  represents completion of the program with exceptional performance, including an overall average of 3.70 and a thesis of a quality suitable for publication.

Thesis Guidelines

Guidelines and deadlines for submission of theses will be available to students who are currently enrolled in the Honors Program.

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Honors Program

Advanced students are encouraged to pursue Honors in the Department. Writing an Honors thesis offers students the chance to:

• Conduct original research in a topic of their interest
• Engage deeply with methodologies of their discipline
• Work closely with faculty in their chosen field
• Produce a significant, original work of scholarship

Interested students must secure a faculty member who will be their advisor for the honors thesis as well as write a 1-2-page thesis proposal (approved by advisor and handed in to the Department Honors Coordinator) by the end of their junior year. It is advisable that students consult with faculty from whom they have previously taken courses.

The thesis may be written in Spanish, Portuguese or English, agreed in conjunction with advisor.

Students conducting research that requires travel or other expenses are encouraged to apply for funding through the  Emory College SIRE program  and/or  Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry . We also encourage students to present their research in April at the  Undergraduate Research Symposium . Contact Lisa Dillman ( [email protected] ), Department Honors Coordinator , with questions or to set up an informational appointment.

Honors Requirements

Eligibility:

• Major in Spanish, Spanish and Portuguese, or Spanish and Linguistics
• 3.5 cumulative GPA, maintained throughout senior year
• 3.5 average GPA in the major

Required courses:

• SPAN/PORT/LING 495A (Fall senior year) and 495BW (Spring).
• Spanish or SpanPort majors must take an approved graduate-level course.
• SPAN 495A does not count as one of the four 400-level courses required for the Spanish major.

Honors Students

Ricardo mercadé lázaro  “el cuerpo se va, a alma fica”: the archipelagic identities of puerto rico and cabo verde through a literary lens, regina morales "transnational motherhood and daughterhood: reimagining familial and gender roles across borders through mexican and brazilian women's oral histories.".

In her final year at Emory, Regina wrote her honors thesis on transnational motherhood and daughterhood using the oral histories of Mexican and Brazilian women living in the United States.

Grant Britton, "Los humores de la Mamá Grande: El uso del humor en los cuentos cortos de Gabriel García Márquez." 

This thesis explores and analyzes how García Márquez employs subversive humor to provide a lighthearted  critique of the social rigidity that is present in the institutions and customs of Latin American society.

Eliana Namen, "Portrayals of Trauma in Film as a Tool for Analyzing Imperial Residues of the New State in Portugal." 

This thesis analyzes the ways in which two contemporary, co- produced films,  The Night Train to Lisbon  and  O Julgamento  discuss the breakdown of the Portuguese social fabric left by imperial residues of the New State regime. 

Madison Cherry, "Regional Effects on Asylum Approval for Latin American Immigrants in the United States."

I plan to research the variation in the asylum granting process by region in the United States by concentrating on large variations in approval amongst the eight principal Asylum Offices and immigration courts.

Alyssa Forsyth, "Portrayal of the National Health Services (NHS) in Portugal's News through the First Wave of COVID-19: A Textual Analysis."

In this thesis, I compare the discussion of the Portuguese National Health Services (NHS) in articles published by five different Portuguese news sources across the political spectrum during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic to qualitatively gauge the perceived success of its response.

Nayive Gaytán "Tourism and a Telenovela: Representations of Tequila, Mexico."

Using visual analysis, I will identify how narratives conveyed through state-sponsored tourism and privately funded broadcast media projects promote symbols associated with Mexican national identity.

Claudia Michaels "Covid-19 and Inequality in Buenos Aires."

Summary: This project seeks to identify how the Covid-19 epidemic and subsequent government responses in Greater Buenos Aires have impacted measures of inequality by studying the distribution of Covid-19 cases across populations in the city with varying access to income, housing, healthcare, and government support.

Arianna Rahimian, "Del foro público a la esfera doméstica: un estudio comparativo sobre la vida cotidiana de las mujeres durante la Segunda República y el franquismo."

This project will investigate themes of family, sex and love, work, and education among working class women in urban centers in Spain. The legal, cultural, and social situations of women changed drastically during the first years of the Franco dictatorship after a relatively progressive Second Republic. I will use legislation, oral histories, literature, and film to characterize and compare the daily lives of women with special emphasis on feminist dissent.

Gwyneth Tefft, "Os retornados: Understanding Portuguese identity through the literary works of a colonial past."

My thesis will analyze topics of identity, race and colonial legacy within Portuguese society through the lens of the retornados, the group of Portuguese settlers who were living in Portugal's overseas territories and who were forced to flee Africa after the fall of the Salazar regime and onset of the decolonization process.

Completed Honors Theses

Undergraudate Honors theses are archived in the  Emory Theses and Dissertations (ETD) Repository . Search for the names of the students below or for the terms Spanish, Spanish and Portuguese, or Spanish and Linguistics.

Aidan Fife  "Cultivating the grassroots: Deep ecology and community networks in Latin America"

Benjamin W. Gitelman-Fonseca  "The Practice of Liberation: Radical Pedagogy in Almanaque Escuela Para Todos"

Daniella Gonzalez  "Defining Family Planning in a São Paulo Clinic: Healthcare Providers and Patients’ Varied Conceptualizations of “Planned” and “Unplanned” Pregnancies"

Alexandra Caridad Llovet  "Stigma Continuity of Leprosy in Brazil, 1924-2018"

Samaresh Rao  "Psychoanalysis in Buenos Aires: An Ethnographic Approach"

Emily Grace Vena  "Language and Health: Investigating Patient-Provider Communications among Puerto Ricans"

Matthew Harrison Witkin  "Haketia: An Ecological Perspective"

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