INTS 402: McNair Research Internship

Course Description

INTRDSCP 402 is a three-credit hour course designed specifically for McNair scholars participating in the McNair Summer Research Internship (MSRI). Each scholar is assigned a faculty mentor who oversees a start-to-finish academically rigorous research experience the outcome being a 20-page scholarly paper which includes the following components; abstract, introduction, research question, literature review, hypotheses, methods section, a discussion of the results as well as the limitations of the study, suggestions for further study, and conclusions. While the McNair Program is here to support scholars and sets the due dates, the MSRI is first and foremost a collaboration between scholars and their respective faculty mentors who supervise the completion of the required MSRI components and assign a grade to the scholar’s work. Prerequisites: Participants must be McNair Scholars and Junior or Senior in standing.