{"id":145,"date":"2012-09-05T10:28:52","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T14:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/rhetoric\/?page_id=145"},"modified":"2026-03-09T14:55:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T18:55:31","slug":"thesis-requirements","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/rhetoric-film-screen-studies\/thesis-requirements\/","title":{"rendered":"Thesis Requirements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><br \/>The senior thesis is the capstone of a student\u2019s college career at Bates, as well as a hallmark of the Bates experience for all students. The nature of any thesis is independent, original, and creative scholarly research, analysis, and writing. This is your project. Consider yourself the \u201cCommander-In-Chief\u201d of your thesis.<br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/rhetoric-film-screen-studies\/files\/2012\/09\/Thesis-Manual.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/rhetoric-film-screen-studies\/files\/2012\/09\/12316079_825189915777_6509622588308069068_n-900x675.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"361\" height=\"271\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSdp0jmsQqKVY0Cl8G9UoV8IaN1eHHuOOBv2x83QIjO1_hIpqw\/viewform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thesis Proposal Form<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLScEDNTP3tDnGu1yRpU4pl8xeAwExPEnY05VSP_Q9bsl7J7xHQ\/viewform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Honors Thesis Proposal Form<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The senior thesis is the capstone of a student\u2019s college career at&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"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":"Overview of Rhetoric thesis requirements at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine ","_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-145","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/rhetoric-film-screen-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/rhetoric-film-screen-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/rhetoric-film-screen-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/rhetoric-film-screen-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/rhetoric-film-screen-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/rhetoric-film-screen-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1896,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/rhetoric-film-screen-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/145\/revisions\/1896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/rhetoric-film-screen-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}