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"The department does not want to dissuade students from writing a thesis, but it did want to offer all honors students a choice," says Werner Sollors, Cabot professor of English literature and director of undergraduate studies for the department
"The department strongly encouraged juniors to consider not writing a thesis at their honors meeting early last spring," Manoni says. "Kathy Boutry, who held the meeting, told us...that it was better to do well in our English classes senior year than to write a thesis for the sake of...
Manoni says she is happy with her decision not to write a thesis.
"They don't want you to feel obliged, like your BA in English is not legit unless you write a 60-page paper," says Leora Bersohn '99, who is writing a thesis on the use of low language in the poems of Philip Larkin and Tony Harrison. "Instead, they only...
The department held two meetings for honors students, one at the end of last year and one at the beginning of this year. The message was that students didn't have to write a thesis.