HLL Undergraduate Honors Program
To be awarded honors, our Spanish majors (single or double majors and Teacher Prep) must
- maintain a cumulative grade point average of at least 3.00 and a grade point average of at least 3.50 in Spanish courses taken for the major; and
- write a senior thesis judged worthy of honors. Students eligible to write a senior thesis must find a member of the department faculty to act as a thesis advisor and enroll in SPN 495.
The Senior HONORS Thesis
The undergraduate honors thesis is an individual research project developed under the guidance of a departmental faculty member (your thesis advisor). Students should select their topic the semester before enrollment in SPN 495. The project must be approved by the thesis advisor and coordinated with the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Honors thesis in HLL are evaluated by the advisor and another faculty member in the department. The thesis should be about 30 pages long (double-spaced), written in Spanish, and formatted according to the last edition of the MLA Style Manual. It must include, after the title page, a 200-word abstract in English. Click here for a sample of a thesis title page.
Prerequisites to register in SPN 495 are: 1) the same as requirement 1, above; 2) senior standing; and 3) permission of the department.
Application to the honors program must be made during Prime Time on the semester prior to registering for the program. If you have any questions, please contact the HLL Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Topics and Research Ideas for 2023-2025
On this PDF you will find a list of diverse topics and fileds of research that can help you identify both your area of interest and faculty that could serve as your thesis advisor.
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Undergraduate Thesis (since 2008)
- Arman John Guimaraes Movsesian. “Máscaras de la sociedad: un examen de la hipocresía social en el mundo del Lazarillo de Tormes”. May, 2024. (Advisor: Victoriano Roncero-Lopez)
- Thaily Ribandeneira-Peñaranda “Impacto de la comunicación en la salud en poblaciones inmigrantes hispanohablantes en Estados Unidos”. May, 2024. (Advisor: Elena Davidiak)
- Jennifer Aucapina Quito, "Bilingüismo y poder en Los ríos profundos de José María Arguedas". May, 2024. (Advisor: Paul Firbas)
- Layla María: "La interseccionalidad entre la lengua de herencia, la cultura, y el desarrollo de la identidad". Dec. 2021. (Advisor: Lilia Ruiz-Debbe)
- John Foppiani. “Positivismo, inmigración y urbanización en Argentina y Brasil”. May 2021. (Advisor: Javier Uriarte)
- Nicoletta Gasparis: “The impact of music in the process of learning Spanish”, Spring 2021. (Advisor: Lilia Ruiz-Debbe)
- Aliyah Kingston: “Monolingualism in the United States”, Spring 2021. (Advisor: Lilia Ruiz-Debbe)
- Nirmala Leljie: “The learning of second languages during globalization: economy and segregation in the schools of Nassau County, NY”, Spring 2021. (Advisor: Lilia Ruiz-Debbe)
- Anita Rescia, “España enferma: Las metáforas de las enfermedades infantiles en la literatura de posguerra”, December 2020. (Advisor: Kathleen Vernon)
- Ana María Carrión Rodríguez, “Gibraltar: un estudio de la cultura gibraltareña, la frontera y los imaginarios sociales”, May 2019. (Advisor: Paul Firbas)
- Rachel Chabin, “Una religión en movimiento: el judaísmo a través de la práctica, la comunidad, y la migración en Déjalo, ya volveremos de Esther Bendahan”, 2019. (Advisor: Daniela Flesler)
- Shivani Sukumar Majmudar, “La necesidad de la voz: el feminismo en España desde el franquismo hasta nuestros días”, 2019. (Advisor: Aurelie Vialette).
- Hazey Katherine Pérez, “La honra de la mujer en la época medieval”, 2018. (Advisor: Víctor Roncero López)
- Raman Budhani, “La idea de la locura en 2666, de Roberto Bolaño”, 2018. (Advisor: Javier Uriarte)
- Melissa Gartner, “El uso y la retención del español en los Estados Unidos entre hispanohablantes de la primera y de la segunda generación”. Spring 2016. (Advisor: Elena Davidiak)
- Katiana José Jean. “Alzheimer, Working Memory and Language.”, Spring 2016. (Advisor: Lilia Ruiz-Debbe)
- Kristen Pelekanos, “Las percepciones de inteligencia después de la primera impresión de las personas bilingües que hablan inglés como un segundo idioma”. Spring 2016. (Advisor: Elena Davidiak)
- Mohammed Timsal Ghani, “Implicaciones sociopolíticas de la inmigración en Estados Unidos y España.” Spring 2014. (Advisor: Daniela Flesler)
- Simone Brown, “El espejo en las páginas: La vanguardia de César Vallejo y Julio Herrera y Reissig”, 2013. (Advisor: Paul Firbas)
- Marjolene Nowicki, “Emigrando entre España y Latinoamérica: las corrientes migratorias entre el Viejo y el Nuevo Mundo desde fines del siglo XIX hasta el presente.” Spring 2013. (Advisor: Daniela Flesler)
- Bradley Donaldson, “La identidad de los latinos de ascendencia africana en los Estados Unidos y América Latina”, 2012. (Advisor: Paul Firbas)
- Nanayaa Serwaa, “The Use of Silence as Interlocutor in the Postwar Novels of Ramón J. Sender and Ana María Matute”. Fall 2012. (Advisor: Daniela Flesler)
- Praveena Tathineni, “Multiculturalism in Spain today.” Spring 2012. (Advisor: Daniela Flesler)
- Daniel Davis, “Paloma Pedrero and the Socratic Dialogues”. Spring 2011. (Advisor: Daniela Flesler)
- Luisa Guzman, “Los pasos perdidos: una travesía de descubrimiento a través del tiempo y del espacio”, 2011. (Advisor: Paul Firbas)
- María Paz Domínguez, “Demetrio Rendon Wilka: entre la modernidad y el mito andino”, 2010. (Advisor: Paul Firbas)
- Kyle Lawton, “Hacia la modernidad: Vargas Llosa y la Sociedad peruana”, 2009. (Advisor: Paul Firbas)
- Donna Marino, “La ficción fantástica en Julio Cortázar”, 2008. (Advisor: Paul Firbas)