<p>Does any current student know how many students elect to write honors theses? What percentage of the graduating class graduates with Honors? Any breakdown for humanities, sciences, business, etc?</p>
<p>I can’t help you with ratios or numbers, but I can tell I know a handful of senior writing their theses right now. 2 are philosophy majors, 2 are journalism majors, and there is one PoliSci major. I could be wrong, but I believe that a high percentage of humanities majors write honors theses. I haven’t heard of any science or business majors writing theses.</p>
<p>My son defended his honors thesis last week. Highest Honors! very proud mommy. He is a middle eastern studies major. His gf and his roomate also have defended their theses recently–one in econ, one is sociology.</p>
<p>At least in my son’s group of friends, it seems a lot of kids go the extra mile…</p>
<p>boysx3, quick question. I’m interested in Middle Eastern Studies and Arabic and I saw that you posted Middle Eastern Studies was your son’s major. How was the program? Did he like his overall experience? I take it he learned a lot since he recieved highest honors for his thesis (congratulations!). Any other information or tips that you have would be greatly appreciated.</p>
<p>Program is very strong and the professors are top knotch and very involved with their students. The professors are all very well known in their fields (Ken Stein, Deborah LIpstadt, Gordon Newby, Benjamin Hary, etc.) It’s a relatively small department and very tight-knit. The major is rather demanding-- a lot of reading and lots and lots of writing. The foreign language classes are excellent. If my son had his choice, he’d stay at Emory in the department for life. Unfortunately for him, graduation is next week.</p>
<p>I’m a current Middle Eastern Studies major at Emory. Ditto to what boysx3 said. Everyone bonds in Arabic class because it meets four days a week and there’re usually only two sections of it, plus the Arabic Table meets twice a week to hone speaking and cultural skills. Besides my roommates, a lot of my closest friends are people I met through Arabic class or MES 100. Ken Stein, Gordon Newby, and Devon Stewart are three of the sharpest, funniest professors I’ve ever met. The Arabic lecturers are a bit loopy, but in a good way. The only bad thing about the MESAS program at Emory is that it’s currently undergrad only. I’d encourage you to check out the department website, and set up an appointment with Dr. Newby if you’re going to be visiting campus. <a href=“http://www.mesas.emory.edu%5B/url%5D”>www.mesas.emory.edu</a></p>
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<p>Don’t know if you’re still around but one more piece of information regarding the Middle-eastern studies program. Son is also a MESAS major and really likes it. Next year, for the first time, they’re going to have a theme house where kids can speak the languages they’re studying. Son is in Clairmont for his sophormore year, has a roomate who speak Hebrew, suitemates who speak Hindi, and next door neighbors who speaks Arabic.</p>