Our May 6, 2015 hour featuring a roundtable of college seniors who wrote a theses this year made many members of our staff nostalgic for their own days as ink-stained, topic-obsessed college wretches.

Each year, seniors must decide whether to write a senior thesis. The year-long course (History 99) requires intensive research in primary sources and culminates in a major piece of writing (usually 60 ...

Early preparation is essential for students’ successful thesis journey – so postgraduate course coordinators and programme leaders should put supports in place from the beginning At the School of ...

Politics majors should start the thesis topic selection process at the beginning of the junior year. Step 1: Juniors will consult with their major advisors about their senior thesis in September.

Finding the perfect dissertation topic can feel like searching for a needle in a haystack, but knowing where to look can transform this daunting task into an exciting journey of discovery. Aspiring ...

Some senior thesis topics come from a student's previous research for a term paper or an experience in an internship. Other ideas come from subjects studied in a course or current headlines. But many ...

Even the most ardent academic must concede that there’s something darkly funny about devoting years of one’s life to a thesis question so abstruse that no one else had ever cared enough to ask it—and ...

When it comes to choosing a dissertation topic, students in the lab sciences have it the easiest. Because their funding comes from their adviser’s lab, their dissertations will typically be carved out ...

You have decided that you want to take a trip. But where to? You begin to narrow the options almost immediately because of your own preferences and the constraints of time and money. For example, you ...