Master's Thesis Seminar

Semester and Year	FA 2012
Course Number	CORE-GG2225
Section	002
Instructor	David Moore
Days	Wed
Time	6:20 PM - 8:00 PM
Units	4.0
Level	G
Foundation Requirement

Notes/Restrictions

Pass/fail only. Section 2 for students in the social sciences who are writing a research or project thesis.

Description

This course engages students in the conceptual and technical processes leading to a thesis: articulating a core problem, reviewing appropriate literatures, designing effective methods, and constructing persuasive analyses. Focusing on students' own work, the seminar examines the conventions of scholarly discourse, strategies of analysis and argumentation, and the ways in which writing can serve as a means to discover ideas. The thesis process in Gallatin is reviewed and clarified. Sections of the course focus on different thesis formats (research, artistic, project) and broad disciplinary categories (arts, humanities, social sciences), but all take the student to the stage of preparing a thesis proposal.

Syllabus

CORE-GG2225

Course Type

Graduate Core (CORE-GG)