Director: Barbara Munson Goff: Loree, Room 038, 932-9266, goff@aesop.rutgers.edu
The George H. Cook Scholars Program is a senior-year honors thesis
program administered by the Honors Committee and available to students
who have completed a minimum of 24 credits at Rutgers by the end of
their junior year. To be eligible, students must have achieved a
cumulative grade-point average of 3.0 in the junior year or be
recommended to the honors committee by a Cook College faculty member.
This program is designed to develop and encourage interest in
scientific research or creative projects in all curricula. Interested
students should contact the program director and discuss the program
with their faculty adviser prior to preregistration for courses for the
first term of the senior year. With the adviser`s help, students find
an instructor willing to aid in the definition of a project and to
supervise the work. In consultation with the honors project adviser,
students decide how many credits (from 3 to 6) to assign to each term
of the honors course. Students submit preliminary project proposals for
the approval of the Honors Committee at the end of the junior year.
Students who successfully complete the two-term honors course
(11:015:497,498), prepare a thesis or other presentation based on these
studies, present their work at an open seminar attended by interested
faculty members and others, and maintain a satisfactory academic record
through the senior year are designated as George H. Cook Scholars at
graduation. Honors theses are kept in the permanent collection of the
Chang Science Library.
