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Senior Year, Latin Honors

To achieve Latin Honors a student must undertake a research project and prepare an Honors thesis on a topic relevant to their degree emphasis and have this work product reviewed and approved by a Faculty committee of no less than three Professors. The University Registrar then awards Latin Honors, based upon the overall GPA of the student. To achieve the quality expected by the department most students start formulating their hypotheses in the spring of their junior year and undertake extensive reading and field research during their junior summer and the fall of their senior year.

Why Complete an Honors Project?

The discipline and cross functional knowledge required to successfully complete an honors project allows students to bring together their first three years of academic experience in a major research and analytical thesis. Students are able to select a topic of interest and to pursue inquiry, which usually includes field work as well as traditional literature reviews and analysis. For example, in the recent past field work has included interviews with foreign executives conducting business in California; growers and wine makers in Napa Valley, California, and the Borossa Valley of Australia; and public and private school teachers in California.

Students use this project and their Business 459 Capstone projects as portfolios to show and discuss with potential employers and graduate schools.

Recent Departmental Honors

  1. The Influence of Foreign Trade on Morocco's Language Education Policies, May 2009
  2. Ethnic Banking: Turkish Immigrants in Berlin, 2008
  3. Sex Discrimination in the on-line Automotive Market, 2008
  4. Foreign NGO's in China, May 2007
  5. The Power of Imminent Domain: A California Case Study, May 2007
  6. New Model May Reduce Gender Bias in the Workplace, 2006
  7. Protectionism in the Wine Industry (France and California), 2006
  8. California's Governance and It's Impact on Foreign Direct Investment, 2004
  9. SOX: Unintended Consequences, 2005
  10. The Emerging Central European Automotive Industry, 2004
  11. The Enhancement of Chinese State Owned Enterprises, 2004
  12. An Analysis of International Accounting Differences, 2003
  13. The Airline Industry as a Commodity Industry, 2003