SOSA 4102

This seminar provides an opportunity for students to engage in sustained investigative scholarship through independent research. The first term concentrates on locating the student’s work within a broader set of theoretical and methodological debates in the discipline, while the second term is devoted to students’ research and writing activities in preparing the thesis required for honours graduation. In the second term, class time is used for students to make “in progress” reports and presentations about their chosen topics. The course caries two separate grades, one for the course and the other for the thesis, appearing on the transcript as “honours qualifying examination” (a University requirement for all honours students).