This year:

Begin your Honors Capstone Project by finding an advisor and honing your topic. For more information go to Getting Started on Your Capstone Project

September Begin selecting a topic and finding an Advisor
see Getting Started on Your Capstone Project
November 12 Capstone Proposal Form Due in Honors
(Find the form at http://honors.syr.edu/ > Current Students >
Capstone Project > Information and Resources > Forms)
Dec – March Work with your Capstone Advisor to develop your project
January 25 Applications for Crown/Wise-Marcus Scholarships due
April 4 Capstone Proposal Update Form Due in Honors
(Find the Form at http://honors.syr.edu/ > Current Students >
Capstone Project > Information and Resources > Forms)
Summer Continue your research and/or creative work

Next year:

  • Meet regularly with your advisor, following your timetable, and make continuous progress on your project
  • Select your Honors Reader in November
  • Register for Honors Capstone Project (XXX 499), to be taken in Spring 2009
  • Submit complete draft to your Project Advisor by February 7, and your next draft also to your Honors Reader
  • Submit draft of Written Capstone Summary to Honors Reader by mid-March 2009
  • Turn in completed the Project and participate in Capstone Presentation Day in Spring 2009
  • Attain a cumulative cum laude grade point average upon graduation (3.2 in Architecture; 3.4 in all other colleges)