SENIOR THESIS

Course Code:
ANTH 490
Active Term:
Spring Term
/ All Years
Course Description:

Senior Thesis This capstone seminar/lecture course is designed to assist Senior Anthropology/Archaeology majors during the completion of their Senior Thesis requirement. The course focuses on enabling students to learn and employ processes and methods commonly used in formal written and oral presentations of background research, data acquisition, data analysis, and conclusions. Students’ ongoing projects will serves as the material for collective class review/critique and discussion. The remainder of the course will consist of short lectures on research paper and graphic preparation and production, and oral presentation. The group will explore the following themes in both lecture and seminar format as appropriate: basic elements of composition, scientific writing, IMRAD format, managing scientific data, technical illustrations, tables and figures, thesis document production/format, and other related themes as needed.

Credit:
3
Instruction methods:
Project
Total hours: 45
Prerequisites:

ANTH 390

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