Contract Courses

To receive credit for a Contract course, the student and professor must negotiate a contract. The student should schedule a meeting with the professor in the first few weeks of class to go over the topics covered by the syllabus. Together they pick a topic or two and the student contracts to do additional research. This research can be demonstrated by an oral report back to the professor, a report to the class, a paper, or other discipline specific project. The professor then writes up a brief contract which states how the student's work will differ from that of the class, and how the grade will be computed (if different from the stated policy: some professors give the Honors project a grade of pass/fail, and the grade is computed according to the regular work; others give a grade to the project and adjust the grading scheme to factor in that grade). That contract is signed and dated by the student, the professor, and the Dept. Chair. Copies need to be given to the student and the coordinator of the Honors program.