Mostly for juniors and seniors, individual departments can offer undergraduates the option of honors program enrollment. These programs allow students to receive more training and deepen their understanding through a program of independent supervised research. Usually, students to submit a proposed project to their department's Undergraduate Committee, which helps them rework it, as needed, into a substantial but feasible proposal. Once accepted, students are assigned a faculty advisor to guide their research. The project concludes in an honors thesis, which the advisor and two readers evaluate, and an oral examination. Departments also use honors programs to formally recognize students who have shown outstanding work through the individual projects