Senior Honors Essay and Thesis

Guidelines and Expectations

That need considering for honors girls’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, students are required to accomplish and defend a senior essay or thesis. Program honors are awarded based on excellence in lots of courses put on the main, furthermore to all or any courses attracted in this particular program, such as the senior essay or thesis, as based on the program faculty. We encourage rising seniors who’re majoring girls’s, gender, sexuality studies where you can GPA of three.5 or better in WGS courses to think about an honors degree. Students obtaining a GPA below 3.5 should consult their consultant along with the WGS chair to uncover whether undertaking an honors essay or thesis is sensible. &#160

Finishing a senior essay:

1. Select a general subject for almost any one-semester essay.&#160 Ideally this is achieved the 2nd semester in the junior year.
2. Discuss your subject with plenty of potential faculty advisors, awaiting getting an entire and explicit commitment within the faculty member who concurs to provide you with advice.&#160 By having an essay, you’ll need one primary consultant inside the core WGS faculty, another readers inside the core or affiliate faculty.&#160 If you’re getting trouble finding an consultant, or aren’t sure where to start, you need to speak with the Undergraduate Counseling Mind, or possibly the Department Chair, who will help you.
3. In consultation together with your consultant, draft an offer (about two pages): outline your subject, methods, sources, texts you want to capture a glance at, questions you’ll ask together with your likely conclusions.&#160It may be beneficial to give the proposal completed and approved from your consultant by oncoming of semester that you will complete the essay.
4. Subscribe to WMGS 99a for almost any fall essay, or 99b for almost any spring essay.
5. Research and write your essay.&#160 Determine a concept using this part of consultation together with your essay consultant. Most essays connect with 30-50 pages extended, and could be performed by early April.&#160 We encourage you to get a full rough draft onf the essay getting per month prior to the final deadline/defense date.
6. Set a defense date together with your two readers, and defend your essay by mid-April. Understand the sidebar for the defense form.

Finishing a senior thesis:

1. Select a general subject for almost any two-semester thesis.&#160 Ideally this is achieved the 2nd semester in the junior year.
2. Discuss your subject with plenty of potential faculty advisors, awaiting getting an entire and explicit commitment within the faculty member who concurs to provide you with advice.&#160 For almost any thesis, you’ll need one primary consultant inside the core WGS faculty, another readers inside the core or affiliate faculty, along with a third readers inside the Brandeis faculty.&#160 If you’re getting trouble finding an consultant, or aren’t sure where to start, you need to speak with the Undergraduate Counseling Mind or Department Chair who will help you.
3. In consultation together with your consultant, draft an offer (about two pages): outline your subject, methods, sources, texts you want to capture a glance at, questions you’ll ask together with your likely conclusions. It may be beneficial to give the proposal completed and approved from your consultant by the start of the semester that you will start writing the thesis.
4. Subscribe to WMGS 99a within the fall, and 99b around.
5. Research and write your thesis.&#160 Determine a concept using this part of consultation together with your thesis consultant. Most theses connect with 60-90 pages extended, and could be performed by early April.&#160 It may be beneficial to possess one solid chapter printed through the conclusion within the fall semester and to intend to write one chapter every a couple of days around semester.&#160 We encourage you to get a complete rough draft within the thesis made by monthly prior to the deadline/defense date.
6. Set a defense date together with your three readers, and defend your essay by mid-April. Understand the sidebar for the defense form.
7. Deposit your thesis while using the college library.

Students must revise the essay or thesis while using comments in the core faculty readers and submit the revised copy that need considering for the Giller-Sagan Prize inside the finish early in the year term. Both essays and theses need a defense. Two WMGS core faculty, a treadmill core the other affiliate, must sign off across the completed essay or thesis. Students must get yourself a &#8220C&#8221 or greater on their own senior thesis for credit for your major.

Students going after honors in another department or program may petition to submit this thesis as being a WGS thesis when the project includes a significant concentrate on ladies andOror gender. Students should contact the WGS Program Office to submit this petition.&#160 A number of readers inside the WGS core faculty is needed to be able to count the task for honors girls’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.

An dental defense within the essay or thesis is needed, with readers present. The defense usually lasts about 1 hour that is limited for that honors research (it is not an exam of general WGS understanding). Typically, students open the dental defense getting a summary within the central argument(s) within the project, plus a discussion from the products you would like the committee to understand. Students may comment, for example, across the discovery way in which introduced individuals to create the essay or thesis to start with on certain field-related or theoretical difficulties they familiar with route or on unresolved issues or questions they didn’t discuss within the written document. The discussion that follows enables faculty an chance to ask about students questions on his/her research also to get hold of students regarding the contents.

The defense must occur prior to the WGS degree meeting, that’s frequently the Monday before graduation. Inside the defense, the thesis or essay is awarded finest honors, high honors, honors, or no honors.&#160 The amount of honors is indicated across the thesis defense form and signed by everyone within the committee, despite the fact that it won’t be conveyed for that student. Students will most likely learn within the final number of program honors

Evaluations occur at numerous points during honors thesis process:

• WMGS 99a and/or b: The consultant within the student’s project section will grade students.
• Honors thesis/dental defense: The defense committee, comprised of the consultant, another readers determines an indication for honors throughout the defense. The committee will base this recommendation upon both written project along with the dental defense.
• Program Honors: Resolution of program honors could be a decision within the WGS core faculty that is dependent not just on the amount of honors earned for the thesis but in addition across the student’s academic record within the Women’s and Gender Studies Program. The amount of program honors awarded will most likely be finest honors, high honors, honors, or no honors.

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