Proposal for Senior Research

Sociology & Anthropology B.S. Program

Proposal for Senior Research

In April of your junior year, you should finalize your plans for how you will fulfill your senior research requirement. You choose the type of research project that best suits your goals.

Choose one set:

Set A:

ANTH/SOCI-501 Senior Research Project

ANTH/SOCI-xxx Program Elective

Set B:

ANTH/SOCI-502 Scholar’s Thesis I

ANTH/SOCI-503 Scholar’s Thesis II

Senior Research Project

The Senior Research Project is a library-based research project that you complete in one semester.

Scholar’s Thesis I & II

Students aiming for graduate school are encouraged to choose the two-semester Scholar's Thesis I & II sequence. In the first semester, you design your own independent research project (and perhaps write a formal proposal, depending upon the requirements of your faculty research mentor) and collect the data (or start to collect the data). In the second semester, you analyze the data and write up your research for a scholarly audience. This intensive, independent research project will hone your research skills and give you a writing sample that will add distinction to your graduate school applications.

Choosing a Faculty Mentor

Whether you choose the Senior Research Project or the Scholar's Thesis I & II option, you need to select a faculty mentor for your project who has the appropriate research background and interests to best help you shape your research project. Please talk with your faculty advisor or one of the Program Co-Directors about who would be the ideal faculty mentor for your project.(The faculty advisor needs to be a full-time faculty member at RIT.) Meet with that potential faculty mentor and discuss your ideas for the project.

Proposal for Senior Research

Type directly into this form. Fill out this proposal, secure the needed signatures, and submit it to the Program Director (or Co-Director). The Program Director will then arrange for your enrollment in the course.

Your choice:

ANTH-501 Senior Research Project

SOCI-501 Senior Research Project

ANTH-502 and ANTH-503 Scholar’s Thesis I & II

SOCI-502 and SOCI-503 Scholar’s Thesis I & II

(You can enroll through ANTH or SOCI, depending upon which you want to appear on your transcript.)

Semester(s) in which you intend to enroll:

In a paragraph, explain your research project:

Your name:

Your signature:

Date:

Senior Research Faculty Mentor’s name:

Faculty Mentor’s signature:

Date: