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Other faculty and administrators agreed with Damrosch but added that elimination of the thesis requirement makes sense only if replaced with other "capstone experiences."
Buell said that although he had voted for the program, he still personally favored a mandatory thesis.
The first humanities department to abandon a thesis as mandatory for honors, the English department's decision followed a similar move by the economics department last year.
"I hope the possible trend toward non-thesis honors degrees will not be seen as devaluing the degree cumlaude in general studies," said incoming Dean of Undergraduate Education William Todd.
Todd said that if the shift to non-thesis honors is a trend he hopes it will move "very slowly" and said he does not anticipate other departments will be compelled to follow in suit in order to remain numerically competitive.