Thesis writers often begin identifying topics and framing research questions in AMCS 375A (formerly 475), at the end of which they are asked to develop a short proposal for some multi-disciplinary project. In any case, the process of posing and refining the questions they will seek to answer in their thesis, and the preliminary research activity that allows them to propose a viable project, happens throughout spring semester of junior year. The bulk of their primary research will happen in the summer and early fall of the senior year. Generally, drafting of the thesis begins in early to mid fall and continues through fall semester and the first half of spring semester.
Given the likelihood that a multidisciplinary project will be ambitious in scope, thesis writers need to be attentive to their own approaches and thoughtful about how best to build arguments based on multiple types of evidence or interpretations. This process of defining and refining methodology is an important part of the thesis planning process, and a central focus of the fall Thesis Seminar (L98 4003).
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