College of Behavioral and Social Sciences

2141 Tydings Hall
301-405-1697
http://www.bsos.umd.edu

College-wide Opportunities

Civicus
Mao-Lin Shen, Program Coordinator
0105 Somerset Hall
mlshen@wam.umd.edu / (301) 405-7918

CIVICUS is an academic citation program centered around 5 tenets of civil society: citizenship, leadership, community building in a diverse society, scholarship, and community service-learning. During the final semester of this two-year learning and living program, students participate in a Supervised internship, engage in community service, or complete a research project on a civil society topic. This final project demonstrates the application and continued study of skills and concepts, grounded in the social sciences, relevant to understanding and effectively dealing with contemporary social issues.

Summer Research Initiative
Ms. Evelyn Cooper
College of Behavioral and Social Sciences
2141 Tydings Hall
ecooper@glue.umd.edu/ (301) 405-8991

The program was developed to reinforce the interest of talented and underrepresented students in pursuing academic careers through graduate study. The Summer Research Initiative gives promising undergraduates the opportunity to experience hands-on research and to learn about graduate programs at the University of Maryland. tudents in the program participate in a faculty-guided research project and a twice weekly seminar series, attend off-site visits to local research institutions, and present their research to the University of Maryland academic community in a poster session. Participating academic departments include Anthropology, Criminology & Criminal Justice, Geography, Government & Politics, Hearing & Speech Sciences, Psychology, and Sociology.

Departmental Research Opportunities
African American Studies Honors Program
2169 LeFrak Hall
301-405-1158

The Honors program in Afro-American Studies offers the exceptional student smaller, in-class teacher-to-student ratios; interdisciplinary study focus; experiential learning exercises; and enhanced involvement in the learning process. Lectures, seminars and instruction from the area's finest academic and industry leaders expose students to the demands of a scholarly and creative approach to academic examination.

Anthropology Departmental Honors
William Stuart
0106 Woods Hall
wstuart@anth.umd.edu / (301) 405-1435

Students meeting the prerequisites for the Anthropology Departmental Honors program gain the experience of working on a particular topic over an extended period of time and of completing a thesis with the guidance of the committee chair and other members of the thesis committee. Participants create a research proposal, engage in a faculty-mentored research project and defend their theses before a faculty committee.

Anthropology Senior Research Thesis
William Stuart
0106 Woods Hall
wstuart@anth.umd.edu / (301) 405-1435

Students who do not meet the requirements for the Departmental Honors program can still design and complete a senior research thesis. As in the Honors program, students design research projects that are completed under faculty supervision and defend their completed thesis in front of a faculty community.

Criminal Justice Departmental Honors Program
Jean M. McGloin, Director of the Honors Program
jmcgloin@crim.umd.edu / (301) 405-3007

The Departmental Honors Program provides superior students the opportunity for advanced study in both a seminar format and independent study under the direction of the faculty. Students who meet the program's prerequisites complete Honors-specific coursework and produce an empirically-based or literature-based thesis. The empirical thesis must involve data analysis; the literature-based thesis requires intensive reading for a critical paper. Both thesis options result in a final paper 25-40 pages in length and must be orally defended.

Economics Honors Program
John J. Wallis, Director of Undergraduate Studies
3135 Tydings Hall
wallis@econ.umd.edu / (301) 405-3552

The Honors Program provides Economics majors with the opportunity for advanced study in a seminar format with faculty supervision of seminar papers and an honors thesis. Participants are exposed to the problems of formulating and conducting economic analysis and encouraged use their training in original research. The program's focus on original work by the student.

Geography Honors Program
Allen Eney
2119 Le Frak Hall
aeney@umd.edu / (301) 405-4112

The Geography Department sponsors an honors program that allows undergraduates to work closely with a faculty mentor on independent research, providing students the opportunity to become involved in hands-on research which can provide career experience or prepare students for graduate school. Students complete a research proposal that states the topic of study and its importantance presents an overview of how the project will be completed. Upon approval of the proposal, the student completes the research under the supervision of a faculty member. Honors students enroll in six credits of honors research, the result of which is an undergraduate thesis.

Government and Politics Honors Program
Stephen Elkin, Director
1140E Tydings Hall
selkin@gvpt.umd.edu / (301) 405-4117

In addition to completing Honors-specific coursework, participants in the Government and Politics Honors Program complete independent guided research and writing with a thesis advisor. The completed thesis is defended before a three member committee composed of the thesis advisor and two other faculty members.

Hearing and Speech Pathology: Undergraduate Research
Rochelle S. Newman
0141BB Le Frak Hal
rnewman@hesp.umd.edu / (301)405-4226

The faculty of the Department of Hearing and Speech Pathology conduct research in a diverse range of areas, including language acquisition and its disorders, memory and language, bilingualism, fluency, stuttering, reading, aphasia, voice disorders, speech perception and aging, hearing aids, and cochlear implants.

Departmental Honors in Hearing and Speech Sciences
Department of Hearing & Speech Sciences
0100 Lefrak Hall
301-405-4213

The objective of the HESP Honors program is to encourage and recognize superior academic achievement and scholarship by providing opportunities for interested, capable, and energetic undergraduates to engage in independent study. A research project will be conducted under the supervision of a faculty mentor and will result in an Honors thesis.

Psychology Honors Program
William S. Hall, Director
1147 Biology-Psychology Building
whall@pysc.umd.edu / (301) 405-5788

Students in the Psychology Honors Program are encouraged to undertake research. In addition to completing required coursework, participants complete a research apprenticeship with a faculty member. The apprenticeship culminates in the Honors Thesis, a piece of original research that the student has designed, executed and reported.

Psychology Research Opportunities for Undergraduates

Most faculty members are actively engaged in research programs which can provide valuable and interesting experiences for the student. Often, in addition to working closely with an individual faculty member, the undergraduate student (PSYC major) has an opportunity to work and interact with other undergraduates, and with graduate students. Various opportunities are available for research experience. The Psychology Undergraduate Listserve is one source of possible research positions on campus. Students may also contact individual faculty and graduate students regarding research opportunities.

Sociology Honors Program
William Falk, Director
2112E Art-Sociology Building
wfalk@socy.umd.edu / (301) 405-6394

The Sociology Honors Program is intended to encourage and recognize superior scholarship. Participation in a departmental honors program offers the qualified student many benefits, including the opportunity to enroll in small seminars and graduate level courses and the opportunity to work on a one-to-one basis with faculty. Honors work also provides additional evidence of a student's ability to successfully complete graduate work.

Additional Research Opportunities
Archeology in Annapolis
Matthew Palus
1111 Woods Hall
mpalus@starpower.net/ 301-405-1429

This intensive, six-week program devotes eight hours daily to supervised archaeological fieldwork, laboratory work, stratigraphic analysis, technical drawing, writing and interpretation. The summer 2005 excavations extend a long-term program of public archaeology in Maryland's state capital that is supported by the Mayor and City Council of Annapolis. This year excavations will be conducted outside of the city, at the former plantation and estate of William Paca on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake, on Maryland's Wye River.

Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector
2105 Morrill Hall
info@iris.econ.umd.edu / (301) 405-3110

The IRIS Center provides opportunities for students to apply what they're learning and gain work experience. IRIS is unique in that it offers substantive assignments, as well as administrative tasks. Potential internships and work assignments for students include, but are not limited to: Research & Analysis, Event Management, Administration, Marketing & Development, and Outreach.

Maryland Child and Family Development Laboratory
Kristen Bernard
0150 Biology-Psychology Building
bernardk@wam.umd.edu / (301) 405-0009

Occasional research opportunities on attachment and relationships and infant development are available through the Maryland Child and Family Development Laboratory.