u/tpounds0

I am a community college student about to enter his sophomore year when I'll be applying to four year programs.

I'm in the honors program for my school, but no one offers a honors econ section.

We can make honor's contracts with a professor, but it helps to have some idea of what additional research you would like to do to earn the honors credit.

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What would be a reasonable expectation for undergrad economic research projects?

This semester I am taking "Economic History of the United States" and "Microeconomics". I have a feeling the former would be the easier research project with my toolsets, as I am not taking any data science class until the spring.

I did a working bibliography for a Library Science class on the economic impact of legalizing sex work nationwide, so I would love to get to do something with the development of sex work decriminalization in the Colonies. Or use the frame work in "Sharing the Prize: The Economics of the Civil Rights Revolution in the American South" by Gavin Wright to compare to the Gay Rights Movement.

My honors projects in other subjects required maybe 5-10 additional hours compared to the standard assignments in class.

Anyone ever seen something like this?

Trying to have one ready for college group assignments, but I can make a copy and adjust a template meant for a working environment!

Looking to do this as an undergraduate honors project. I have my English teacher that has agreed to be my honors mentor but her next office hours aren't til Monday so wanted to see Reddit's opinion.

Using Tinker Belles and Evil Queens by Sean P. Griffin as a major source of performing queer readings on children's media. He goes chronologically in Chapter 2: “Mickey Mouse—Always Gay!” Reading Disney Queerly during Walt’s Reign.

I guess my main question in terms of organizations would be

• Queer Theory first: using various queer theories and seeing how they apply to the film through each lens.

• Film first: organizing the reading by Protagonist, Theme, Structure, and highlighting the strongest elements of the film that lead to a queer reading.

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I also think there's a something queer about doing a close reading on something more low culture than Shakespeare, James Baldwin, or Shirley Jackson but I'm unsure if that even fits into the project.

I'm also unsure of when to stop researching queer theory and when to actually apply it. But any recommendations for further reading is appreciated.

Just discovered this recently:

> Duggan, Jennifer. “Queer Readings and Rewritings of Children’s Literature.” The Palgrave Handbook of Feminist, Queer and Trans Narrative Studies, edited by Corinna Assmann and Vera Nünning, Springer Nature Switzerland, 2025, pp. 395–411, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-75864-5_23.