Graduating seniors and alumni recount that completing a thesis project is the most meaningful and rewarding academic experience of their four years at Bates.<\/p>\n
A thesis allows you to examine a scholarly topic from an original perspective, to support a well-reasoned argument through evidence or research, and to write a cohesive paper that demonstrates your intellectual engagement with this topic. The faculty in Anthropology crafted this document to address rising seniors\u2019 questions about their upcoming thesis writing process.<\/p>\n
Over the next nine to twelve months you will delve into an anthropological topic that intrigues you, develop a focused research question about this topic, and attempt to answer it through independent archaeological or ethnographic research.\u00a0 Distilling this research into a well crafted, lucid and cogent thesis paper provides a sense of accomplishment for any student in Anthropology.<\/p>\n
You will complete your theses in your final semester (exceptions are exceedingly rare), but the requisite research and writing process will shape your entire final college year. Be prepared for a significant extra workload during your entire senior year. Initiative is left largely up to the student, though the senior seminar (AN441) does include a thesis-writing component and we do enforce some departmental deadlines, listed below.<\/p>\n
Starting early is key, especially when seeking thesis research funding whether from the department, the Dean of Faculty, Off-Campus Study, or the Harward Center (note that only the anthropology department deadlines are listed below).<\/p>\n
Please click on the\u00a0 following links to access these\u00a0pages<\/em><\/p>\n Thesis Proposal Cover Sheet<\/a> Graduating seniors and alumni recount that completing a thesis project is the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":46,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_prepend":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append_before_footer":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"class_list":["post-37","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":612,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37\/revisions\/612"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/anthropology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe Shape of an Anthropology Senior Thesis Proposal<\/a>
\nComplete Senior Thesis Handout<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"