Senior Honors Thesis Seminar

0 or 3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

The Senior Honors Thesis Seminar is required for all linguistics majors writing a senior honors thesis, and the primary goal of the course is to provide additional support and guidance as you write your thesis (your thesis mentor will be responsible for overseeing the content of your research and for evaluating your final paper). In this course, the instructor and your peers will provide guidance and feedback on the research and writing process, helping you to get organized, break down the project into manageable stages, avoid mistakes, present your work clearly, and keep on schedule as the year progresses. Using a textbook, published models, peer review, and workshop-format discussions of preliminary work, we will discuss progress and problems at each stage. The seminar will meet "half-time" (approximately every other week) during the fall and spring semesters. Undergraduate students will receive 3 credits for the course, with an IP grade for the fall to be replaced with a letter grade upon successful completion of all course requirements in the spring. Credit for the seminar will count toward linguistics major requirements.