Congratulations to Sara Krumminga, student of Jon Huener — Sara who won an APLE award to support her research on "Collective Memory in a Divided City: Memorials to the Victims of the Nazis."
Find information regarding the APLE award and application process (CAS website).
Departmental Honors, which is a degree distinction, is awarded in accordance with the following procedure:
Professors nominate students who have submitted exceptional seminar papers (papers written for 200-level courses). Should a person wish to accept nomination, he or she will then revise that paper, if it needs revision, along lines suggested by the professor.
Submission to the committee: Whether revised or not, that paper will be submitted to a committee of three professors from the department who will examine the candidate. This examination, which will be an oral interview and which will last about one hour, will not only probe the paper's thesis and the methods of investigation and analysis employed by the student, it will also ask the student to place his/her work into a larger historiographical context. In other words, how does this paper relate to larger historical issues?
Upon successful examination: Upon successful examination, the student will be awarded Departmental Honors provided that he/she is a History major and has a graduating average in all History courses of at least 3.3.
Students who have a GPA of at least 3.2 and who have been on the Dean's List for at least three semesters are eligible to apply for permission to undertake an honors research project during their senior year. Additional information is available in the Dean's office.
Ruth Boelsen Baird Award
The Baird Award was established in 1998 by Mrs. Baird to be used to recognize deserving students in the History Department. Mrs. Baird graduated from UVM in 1942 with a double major in History and Psychology.
This award is given to the out-of-state senior history major with the greatest financial need and the strongest academic record as measured by overall grade point average and grade point average in History courses. The recipient of the award is recognized at the Honors Day ceremonies.
Paul D. Evans Award
The History Department annually recognizes its in-state outstanding graduating senior(s) with the Paul D. Evans Award for Excellence in History at Honors Day ceremonies. Paul D. Evans had a distinguished career as a professor of history from the 1930s until his retirement in 1972.
This award is given to the in-state senior history major(s) with the strongest academic record as measured by overall grade point average and grade point average in History courses. Consideration is also given to the level of difficulty of the courses taken within the major.
Undergrads: 12 credit hours (4 classes) in history; 3.1 History GPA; 3.0 overall; in top 35% of class
Graduate students: 12 credit hours(4 classes) with 3.5 and 30% of residence requirement completed
A completion of five or more courses in History (15 credit hours); for undergraduates, a minimum grade point average of 3.5 in all History courses and a minimum overall grade point average of 3.4; for graduate students a minimum of 3.67 in all graduate coursework.
Further details are available from our Phi Alpha Theta Advisor, Professor Denise Youngblood. Additional information about the National Honor Society can be obtained at their website.
Last modified November 05 2009 09:42 AM
