National Collegiate Honors Council
Honors in Practice Online Archive
Date of this Version
2025
Document Type
Article
Citation
Honors in Practice (2025) 21: 235-238
Abstract
This essay considers how course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) can drive original research. Honors students in career-oriented majors (accounting, hospitality management, health services administration, criminal justice) develop primary research studies that are proposed for institutional review and then conducted within a specific population across the university. The author describes the CURE model within an honors curriculum, observing that it actively engages students in the full research cycle from conceptualization to dissemination and fosters critical thinking, methodological rigor, and ethical awareness. The author recommends its use in either group or individual settings to honors programs seeking to position students as active researchers.
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Copyright 2025, NCHC and the author. Used by permission