Honours Thesis in Psychology

Honours Thesis – PSY 4276

  1. Completion of the courses PSY 2106/2506, PSY 2116/2516 and PSY 2174/2574
  2. Completion of the course PSY 3307/3707 (Note: this course may be taken concurrently with the Thesis). (It is recommended to register to PSY 4130 in 4th year)
  3. Have completed a minimum of 81 credits after the Winter 2023 trimester.
  4. Have a Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of at least 8.0 after the Winter 2023 trimester.

* The Thesis may be replaced by 6 optional PSY course units at the 4000-level.

PLEASE NOTE: No exception will be granted

  • Completion of the courses PSY 2106/2506, PSY 2116/2516, PSY 2174/2574
  • Completion of the course PSY 3307/3707 (Note: this course may be taken concurrently with the Thesis).
  • Completion of all 1st and 2nd year science courses.
  • Have completed a minimum of 81 credits after the Winter 2023 trimester.
  • The Thesis may be replaced by 6 optional PSY course units at the 4000-level.
  • Have a Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of at least 8.0 after the Winter 2023 trimester.

Registration is not accessible through your student center. Please submit a Modification/Cancellation of Enrolment form through the online form portal. You have from May 30th  to June 30th 2023 to submit your enrolment form for registration to the 2023-2024 academic year. 

You will find below the list of full-time professors who are available to supervise 4th year undergraduate honours thesis students. This list also includes cross-appointed faculty members, emeritus professors, and clinical professors who have been approved.  In order to be able to monitor and ensure a training of high quality, only professors appearing on this list will be authorised to supervise honours thesis.  The maximum number of Honours theses that a professor can supervise in 2023-2024 appears in italics. Once the maximum number of students that we can supervise in 2023-2024 is achieved, that is 90, students will not be able to register anymore.  

Please note, that the students that are officially registered will have until August 14th to find a supervisor and to communicate the name of their supervisor to the Honours thesis Coordinator, Hélène Plamondon ([email protected]). The students should include their supervisor in their message so that they can confirm that have agreed to supervise their Honours thesis.

Students who are not successful in finding an Honours Thesis supervisor by August 14th will have to withdraw from the Thesis.

Finding an Honours Thesis supervisor should be done only when all eligibility criteria are fulfilled. 

  • Consult the list of Honours Thesis supervisors for 2023-2024
  • Approach the professor(s) who have an area of research that interests you, by communicating with them via e-mail, to ask for an appointment. During that meeting, you will have to establish the modalities and the research to begin. This approach is normally done starting in June.

When you are registered to the course, you will have access to Brightspace developed for the Honours Thesis in Psychology.

L'effet de l'activation aigue ou répétée des récepteurs GPER par l'agoniste sélectif G-1 sur le système sérotoninergique à la suite d'une ischémie globale du cerveau chez des rates Wistar ovariectomisées
Elie Bres
Supervisor: Dr. Hélène Plamondon

"Spoon-taneous" Thoughts: Developing a New Task to Measure Children's Spontaneous Future Cognition
Jane Archibald
Supervisor: Dr. Cristina Atance

Hélène Plamondon, PhD
School of Psychology
University of Ottawa
Vanier Hall
136 Jean-Jacques Lussier
Room 2082
Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5 Canada
Tel: 613-562-5800 (4098)
[email protected]