{"id":23532,"date":"2022-06-16T13:23:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T13:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/?post_type=cu_description&#038;p=23532"},"modified":"2026-04-16T09:27:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T13:27:29","slug":"what-is-the-difference-between-the-honours-capstone-seminar-soci-4700-and-the-honours-thesis-soci-4900","status":"publish","type":"cu_description","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/description\/what-is-the-difference-between-the-honours-capstone-seminar-soci-4700-and-the-honours-thesis-soci-4900\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the difference between the Honours Capstone Seminar (SOCI 4700) and the Honours Thesis (SOCI 4900)?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p>With the Honours Capstone Seminar (SOCI 4700), students carry out a small-scale research project to hone transferable skills acquired over the course of the degree program. Students must have fourth-year Honours standing to register for SOCI 4700. It is a 0.5 credit course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the Honours Thesis (SOCI 4900), students carry out an independent research project under the supervision of a faculty member. The seminar supports students through each stage of the research process, which includes development of a research question, designing the project, crafting a proposal, carrying out data generation and analysis, and writing the final thesis. To register for SOCI 4900, students must have fourth-year Honours standing in Sociology, with a CGPA of 9.00 or higher or permission of the instructor. Students are strongly encouraged to identify a faculty member to supervise their Honours Thesis prior to the start of this course. It is a 1.0 credit course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To find more information on some of the past honours research papers, please go to <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/undergraduate\/sociology\/honours-thesis-poster-presentations\/\">this link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_description_type":[74],"class_list":["post-23532","cu_description","type-cu_description","status-publish","hentry","cu_description_type-current-ug-student-faq-program-details"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_description\/23532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_description"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_description"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_description\/23532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34005,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_description\/23532\/revisions\/34005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_description_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_description_type?post=23532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}