Honors College 399H - Critical Approach Thesis Rsrch

This course will focus on the crucial first step - How to Begin your Independent Thesis or Project. The course will function as your Pre-499Y (thesis/project research) in which you will create your thesis abstract, assemble a committee in the field of your interest, and a proposal draft. Finding and utilizing appropriate sources and narrowing a specific topic of information (that is, locating, organizing, critiquing, and using the literature available on specific topics) are essential to those who research. Doing so enables us as investigators to define the boundaries and dimensions of our discipline, to identify and narrow down potential topics, to recognize and indicate relationships among variables, to place research questions into a perspective, to write an abstract/preliminary proposal, to locate measures and means that have proven useful in prior research, and to avoid the unintentional replication of previous studies. While this course is recommended for juniors, senior-year students are also welcome. Course content is oriented toward students in the humanities and social sciences.

Open to Junior students in Commonwealth College only.