The Honors Program at Puget Sound offers students a chance to fulfill their Core Requirements in courses that focus on classic texts of Eastern and Western civilization. Each year, 34 students are selected to participate in this four-year program. These students will take classes together and build a common base of knowledge from which to draw on in subsequent classes. During senior year, each student in the program will write an Honors Thesis in their major or field of study and then present their research to the community. At graduation, students who complete the program will be designated as Coolidge Otis Chapman Honors Scholars.

The Honors Program fosters a sense of community among its students by sponsoring activities such as trips to the Seattle Opera, the annual Langlow Haunted House which benefits the Kids Can Do! mentorship program, frequent discussions, presentations by members of the campus community or visiting scholars, and the Honors Film Series. Fourteen students may also live in the Langlow House during their freshman year, which serves as a central meeting place for the program.

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Theses from 2022

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Life Insurance Access and Financial Resilience: Fostering Sustainable and Inclusive Growth in Latin America, Nicolas Thompsen

Theses from 2021

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PROTO-NATIONALISM IN SCANDINAVIA: SWEDISH STATE BUILDING IN THE MIDDLE AGES, Alexander Jacobson

Theses from 2020

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The Half Life of Environmental Racism: Reproductive Justice and Nuclear Technology on Indigenous Lands, Katherine Gladhart-Hayes

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Mindful of a Profit? A Critical Analysis of Meditation Apps in the Context of Neoliberalism and Western Constructions of Religion, Kylie I. Gurewitz

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Those Who Stay - U.S. Immigration Policies and the Impact of Migration on the Communities of Oaxaca, Mexico, Aliah McCord

Theses from 2019

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Cicero and His Exploration of Frienship, Madison Brown-Moffitt

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Distinguishing Mitigated and Unmitigated Agency and Communion and the Implications for Dating Relationships, Payton Gubser

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Epistemic Injustice and Suicidality, Sam Lilly

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An April Anarchy: Non-realist dramaturgical approaches to Christopher Fry’s The Lady’s Not for Burning, Molly S. McLean

Theses from 2018

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TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH: ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS, Yiqing Dong

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Soundscape Composition: Music as Environmental Activism, Megan A. Reich

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Of Queens, Incubi, and Whispers from Hell: Joan of Arc and the Battle Between Orthopraxy and Theoretical Doctrine in Fifteenth Century France, Helen W. Tschurr

Theses from 2017

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Gravitational wave behavior at a vacuum-matter interface, Jake Litterer

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Evolvability: What Is It and How Do We Get It?, Matthew Moreno

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Bioaccumulative and Toxic Effects of Ingested Clean and PBT-Saturated Microplastics on Oryzias latipes (Japanese Medaka Fish): Method Development towards Physiological and Chemical Analysis, Kieran O'Neil

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Putting Care Back into "Health Care:" An Analysis of the Place of Community Health Workers within the U.S. Health Care System, Megan Schowalter

Theses from 2016

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Healing Powers; An Examination of Medical Ethics, Benevolent Lies, and The Doctor-Patient Relationship in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain, Rosa Dale-Moore

The effect of music on isokinetic peak torque during performance in female collegiate athletes, Olivia Fair

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César Franck’s Violin Sonata in A Major: The Significance of a Neglected Composer’s Influence on the Violin Repertory, Clara Fuhrman

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Confronting the Past: Corruption in Post-Communist Hungary and Romania, Michellie Hess

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Joseph Joachim: Collaborator, Composer, Interpreter and Inspirer, Brandi Main

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China's ineffective water pollution policy: an issue of enforcement, Taili Ni

Theses from 2015

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Playing with Death: The Potential for Violent Video Games to Induce Mortality Salience, Beth Anderson

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Insights into the evolution of the Great Plains grassland ecosystem over the last 5 million years from paleotemperature and paleovegetation records, Anne Fetrow

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Dum conderet urbem: Poetic Portraits of Aeneas as Political Commentaries on Augustus, Alicia Matz

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Growing up on the spectrum: How High-functioning Young Adults with Autism Transition to Independence, Brittany Walker

Theses from 2014

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Revolution or Reform: Contradictions Within the Ideology and Actions of the Black Panther Party, 1969-1970, Jana Cary-Alvarez

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The [ftaires!] to Remembrance: Language, Memory, and Visual Rhetoric in Chaucer's House of Fame and Danielewski's House of Leaves, Shannon Danae Kilgore

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The Feasibility of Citywide Public DRT: Door-to-door Bus Service in Tacoma, Nathan Pastor

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Determining the Potential Activity of Wnt Signaling During Zebrafish Oocyte Maturation, Nathan Pincus

Theses from 2013

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Beyond Hippies and Rabbit Food: The Social Effects of Vegetarianism and Veganism, Anna Lindquist

Theses from 2012

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Some Comfort to the Order of Things: A Journey Through the Terrain of Silence, Grief, and Nature, Laura Derr

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ROK and Rac mediation of PRL-1 function in the wings of Drosophila melanogaster, Rosemary Dinkins

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ANGRY YOUTH: PATRIOTIC EDUCATION AND THE NEW CHINESE NATIONALISM, Rachel Gary

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Silencing Sacagawea: Eva Emery Dye & the Origin of an American Myth (1902-1905), Tedra Hamel

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"[Breaking] the back of words": Dimensions of Gothic Unspeakability in Poe, Faulkner, and Toni Morrison’s Beloved, Elizabeth Kirsch

Theses from 2001

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A Study of Japanese Animation, Michele Gibney