What are the advantages to doing a General Honors thesis over a Departmental Honors thesis and vice versa?
There is an important difference between General Honors and Departmental Honors thesis. The Departmental Honors thesis is designed to demonstrate the candidate’s ability to conduct original creative research within boundaries of the major discipline. General Honor’s research is designed to demonstrate the candidate’s ability to either conduct research of a broad interdisciplinary nature or to allow the candidate to conduct cross-disciplinary research beyond the bounds of the major. Which one you decide to do is entirely up to you. Some people value the experience of making connections across disciplines, and some people prefer to demonstrate their command of a particular subject area. Which type of thesis will look better on a graduate school application is debatable. You can also elect to do both a General Honors thesis and a Departmental thesis, which would demonstrate your abilities in both areas.
