Procedures for Admission to the Honors Program in Nonfiction Writing
Applications to the Honors Program in Nonfiction Writing must be submitted no later than the second semester of a student's junior year. The application submission deadline for this academic year is Thursday, April 9, 2009.
The application procedure consists of the following steps.
1. If you have not yet declared your concentration in Literatures and Cultures in English, see Beth Taylor, the Nonfiction Writing Director, to complete the concentration form, and submit a copy of the Registrar's internal academic transcript of grades for courses completed at Brown or transferred for credit.
2. Complete the Honors Program application and submit it to the department as early as possible (but no later than April 9) in the spring semester of your junior year. Forms are available online and in the English Department office at 70 Brown Street.
3. Arrange for two letters to be submitted by the application deadline: (a) A letter of recommendation and support from the English faculty member who has agreed to serve as your Honors advisor, and (b) a letter of recommendation from an English literature faculty member or a faculty member in the Nonfiction Writing Program teaching 1000-level courses from whom you have taken a course. (If necessary, letters may come from faculty in related departments. Letters from teaching assistants may only serve as supplementary recommendations.)
4. Provide a sample (15-20 pages) of your writing from a Nonfiction Writing course, preferably 1000-level, and appropriate to your proposed project.
5. Submit a proposal of your project, signed by the faculty member who has agreed to serve as your Honors advisor. The proposal should include the rationale of the project, your background in relation to it, and a bibliography.
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Applications must be submitted by Thursday, April 9, 2009. Students who are studying off campus are expected to meet the application submission deadline. Students planning to be abroad during the spring semester of the junior year should consider submitting all application materials before leaving campus in December.
Applications will be evaluated and candidates will be informed of the decision before the start of registration for fall courses. Students whose applications have been accepted should register for ENGL1200 for the fall semester 2009 with the principal thesis advisor.
Application materials may be left with Jane Donnelly in the English Department office.
