Dept Sem:Intl Polit Honors Sem

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

NOTE: For senior IPOL Honors students only. The seminar is designed to prepare you to write a senior honors thesis in International Politics (IPOL). Writing a thesis will deepen your knowledge and stretch your analytic skills in major ways. Doing this successfully requires hard work and an ability to break a large task into a series of manageable steps. The seminar’s purpose is to help you navigate these steps. By the end of the semester, you should have (1) a well-defined thesis question on an important topic, (2) a clear plan for answering that question, (3) a bibliography of the relevant theoretical and empirical literature, (4) an understanding of the key theories and alternative hypotheses relevant to your research question, and (5) the first 20-plus pages of the thesis together with the overall outline and bibliography.