RULE-THESIS

1-3 Credits · Level: Undergraduate

RULE-THESIS is a year-long course designed to provide support and guidance for linguistics majors writing a senior honors thesis. In this seminar, the instructor will introduce students to the research and writing process, helping students to get organized, break down a project into manageable stages, avoid mistakes, present scholarly work clearly, incorporate feedback from peers, and keep on schedule as the year progresses. Using a textbook, published models, peer review, and workshop-format discussions of preliminary work, the instructor and seminar participants will discuss progress and problems at each stage. In addition, each student will have a thesis mentor who will be responsible for overseeing the content of the research and for evaluating the final version of the thesis. The seminar will meet "half-time" (approximately every other week) during the fall and spring semesters, with students receiving a total of 3 credits for the course, distributed across the year: 1 in the fall and 2 in the spring. The seminar is required for all students writing a linguistics thesis, and credit for the seminar will count toward linguistics major requirements