{"id":103,"date":"2010-07-30T19:13:32","date_gmt":"2010-07-30T19:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hub-dev.bates.edu\/psychology\/?page_id=103"},"modified":"2017-09-12T14:37:51","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T18:37:51","slug":"thesis-planning","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/psychology\/thesis\/thesis-planning\/","title":{"rendered":"Planning Your Senior Thesis"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/psychology\/files\/2010\/07\/thesiscongrats.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-403\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/psychology\/files\/2010\/07\/thesiscongrats.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/psychology\/files\/2010\/07\/thesiscongrats.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/psychology\/files\/2010\/07\/thesiscongrats-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/psychology\/files\/2010\/07\/thesiscongrats-295x393.jpg 295w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Senior majors must complete an empirical thesis, community-based research thesis, or theoretical review and integration thesis. For an empirical thesis, a student conducts original research on an issue of theoretical or practical concern. For a community-based research thesis, a student works in the community, using his or her training in psychology to address social or psychological issues in an applied setting. \u00a0For a theoretical review and integration thesis, a student completes a\u00a0comprehensive and critical review of extant literature under the individual guidance of a faculty adviser.<\/p>\n<h3>Choosing an advisor or a topic<\/h3>\n<p>We encourage students interested in empirical theses to consider working with faculty in their specialty areas. There are a number of advantages to working with members of the Psychology Department in their areas of interest, including getting expert advising, access to recent studies and assessment instruments, and the potential for later publication.\u00a0 To learn more about each faculty member&#8217;s area of interest, please check out the links to their profiles on the\u00a0<a title=\"Faculty &amp; Staff\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/psychology\/faculty-staff\/\">Faculty &amp; Staff page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Another potential source of inspiration is the\u00a0<a title=\"Thesis Abstracts\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/psychology\/thesis-abstracts\/\">archive of senior thesis abstracts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Your Proposal<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Senior Thesis Proposal Guidelines\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/psychology\/senior-thesis-proposal-guidelines\/\">Guidelines<\/a> for writing your senior thesis proposal, along with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/psychology\/senior-thesis-proposal-guidelines\/\">sample proposals<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Technical information<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Thesis title page template\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/psychology\/template\/\">Instructions<\/a> on how to format the title page of your thesis<\/p>\n<p>The Ladd Library has an <a href=\"http:\/\/libguides.bates.edu\/thesis_writers\">amazing resource about formatting your thesis document<\/a>, including downloadable Word templates for different majors (including psychology).<\/p>\n<h3>Find out what is expected of you<\/h3>\n<p>The department has a <a title=\"Thesis Expectations\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/psychology\/thesis\/thesis-planning\/thesis-expectations\/\">detailed document<\/a> outlining the expectations for students doing a thesis project. Be sure to check it out!<\/p>\n<h3>Share your completed thesis!<\/h3>\n<p>When you have completed your senior thesis, please share your title and abstract with us!\u00a0 You may go to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/abacus.bates.edu\/~bpfohl\/thesisinfo\">this website<\/a> when you are ready to provide that information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior majors must complete an empirical thesis, community-based research thesis, or theoretical&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":1140,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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-103","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2338,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103\/revisions\/2338"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}