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GALLATIN SCHOOL OF INDIVIDUALIZED STUDYThe Thesis CommitteeEach thesis committee includes three panelists who will read the thesis and participate in thethesis defense. Of the three panelists, one must be the student’s primary academic adviser,and at least one must be a full-time Gallatin faculty member. If the academic adviser is afull-time Gallatin faculty member, a student may ask two other non-Gallatin faculty membersto serve on the committee; while these panelists are usually members of the NYU faculty,on rare occasions a student may choose a qualified person from another university.Students are responsible for selecting and confirming the participation of each panelist. Studentsshould consult with their primary advisers about composing the committee. TheM.A. program directors are also available to help students with this process.Review of the Literature (CORE-GG2115)Before starting the thesis,students are required to conduct an independent study—usually withtheir advisers—in which they find, read and critique a substantial body of previous scholarshiprelated to the thesis.This independent study is called Review of the Literature.The requiredwork for Review of the Literature is a critical essay and a bibliography.The aim of the criticalessay is to identify the categories of pertinent studies; report on major concepts, theories, debates,trends and gaps in the field; and place the thesis topic in relation to earlier studies.Master’s Thesis Seminar (CORE-GG2225)After students have completed the majority of their elective credits and have begun to formulatea reasonably clear conception of the thesis,they should take the Master’sThesis Seminar.Thiscourse takes the student through the stages of writing the thesis proposal: defining the field ofresearch, formulating the problem, developing a bibliography, choosing an appropriate researchmethodology, gathering information, organizing the material, revising and preparing a scholarlymanuscript.The final product of the course is a complete (if early) draft of the thesis proposal.Thesis ProposalBefore writing the thesis, a student must submit a detailed proposal to the adviser and to Gallatinfor approval. Each thesis format (research, artistic and project) requires particular elementsin the proposal; please see the Gallatin Web site for details.Master’s Thesis and Defense (CORE-GG2335)The final phase of the student’s program is writing the thesis itself.The thesis is usually writtenduring (and sometimes after) the term in which the student registers for the 3-unitcourse entitled “Master’s Thesis and Defense” (CORE-GG2335).This is not a “course” inthe traditional sense, although registered students do attend a special workshop at the beginningof the term. Rather, it is an independent study whose final product is the thesis andits successful defense.Typically, students register for Master’s Thesis and Defense when theyhave completed 37 of the 40 units required for the degree.NewYork University Bulletin 2012-2013 77
NEW YORK UNIVERSITYMatriculation PolicyStudents must be matriculated at the time they defend the thesis.That is,students must be registeredfor Master’s Thesis and Defense, or if they did not successfully defend the thesis duringthe term in which they registered for Master’s Thesis and Defense, they must then register forthe 1-unit course entitled “Thesis Advisement” (CORE-GG2340) each term (including thesummer, if they plan on graduating in September) until they have successfully defended thethesis. Students should note that this 1-unit course is not included in the 40-unit requirementfor the master’s degree and it has a special tuition rate ($400 plus a nonrefundable registrationand services fee). Students may not maintain matriculation after completing 37 units. Rather,they must enroll in Master’sThesis and Defense or, when appropriate,Thesis Advisement.Students who defend in time for January graduation do not need to matriculate in the springsemester. Students who defend in time for September graduation do not need to matriculatein the fall term but do need to matriculate in the summer term.Please note:only students whowill defend for September graduation are required to matriculate in the summer term.THESIS APPROVAL PROCESSOnce the thesis proposal has been approved,the student should consult regularly with the adviserand, if possible, the other members of the thesis defense committee. During this period,the student should clarify ideas or approaches and submit drafts of chapters for feedback.When the thesis has been completed, the student should submit a copy to the adviser forreview no less than ten weeks before the anticipated defense date. Once the thesis has beenapproved by the adviser, the student should submit the final draft of the thesis on the GallatinWeb site no less than four weeks before the defense date; the adviser-approved draft will beforwarded to the second and third readers, as well as to the School. Students conducting anartistic thesis that entails a performance must arrange to have the thesis committee memberssee the performance no less than one week before the defense date.Members of the thesis committee will read the thesis before the defense, but generally willnot provide feedback unless substantial revisions are required. If the student cannot make therequested revisions quickly enough, the defense date may be postponed.Formal approval of the thesis will occur at the defense. Please note that it is also not unusualfor the thesis committee to approve the thesis at the defense but still require revisionsto the thesis (which the student will have 30 days to complete).THE THESIS DEFENSEAt least four weeks before the anticipated defense date, the student negotiates a specific dateand time with the three members of the committee; when that agreement has been reached,the student registers for the defense on the GallatinWeb site. On the appointed date, the stu-78 NewYork University Bulletin 2012-2013
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