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Plan to spend one year researching and working on your honors thesis. The finished project may be a fully developed design project, or you may write a traditional research thesis.

Past students have explored a wide range of topics, from the role architecture has played in literature and film to the proposed redevelopment of a riverfront warehouse district in St. Louis, Mo. Here is a sampling:

• Natalie Blair, “Death as a Theme Park: Heritage Tourism and the American Cemetery”
• Zachary Cooley, “The Sustainability of Urban Growth Policies: Evidence of a Need for Public Participation in Urban Planning”
• Ben Emanuelson, “Investigations into the Potential Application of Carbon Fiber Composites Upon Architecture, Design and Construction”
• Justin Faircloth, “Image and Representation: The Downtown Architecture of Memphis, TN”
• Katie Kummer, “Moving to the Suburbs: Fifty Years of Women Living the American Dream”
• Blanche McKee, “Preservation for the Historically Impaired: Making Historic Preservation Palatable for the Average Property Owner”
• Rachel Smith, “Articulating the ‘Black Box’: A Spatial Analysis of Alwin Nickolais’s Choreographic Works”

A faculty thesis advisor will guide your work. In addition to your advisor, two faculty members in related fields will serve on your thesis committee. Once you have wrapped up work on your thesis, you will defend it before your committee. Honors thesis students present their research in a public venue in the Fay Jones School of Architecture or sometimes at a state conference for undergraduate research.