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Please consult the Senior Thesis Seminar Canvas site, or reach out to the Undergraduate Program Coordinator, for specific dates.
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Fall Semester, Junior Year
- FebruaryOctober: Initial Meeting. Junior concentrators are invited to meet with the Senior Thesis Adviser for an introduction to the senior thesis writing process.
Spring Semester, Junior Year
- Early April: Short Proposals Due. Students submit a basic proposal outlining preliminary ideas, along with a list of potential faculty advisers. Faculty advisers are assigned to thesis projects in late April or early May.
- Late April: Applications due for Pulitzer and Abramson Travel Grants. See Undergraduate Prizes, Grants and Opportunities for details on grants and applications. Information on how to apply will be provided by the Undergraduate Program Coordinator. Grant recipients will be notified by email.
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- Throughout the semester:Advising meetings with individual faculty advisers to guide production and iterative refinement of design work (architectural analytical drawings and/or physical models), and edits to digital presentation made in fall term HAA Thesis Thesis Presentations.
- March 0814, 20242025, 12:00 pm EST: Submission of final senior thesis design project including digital images and written text as a single PDF file (see “Submission Requirements for Honors Consideration”).
- March 2928, 2024 2025 (date subject to change and TBC):Participation in a gallery-style final presentation with faculty and peers after submission of thesis. The design presentations for the gallery-style event should include an updated digital presentation comprised of the project title, author’s name, the most current versions of all elements listed below in the Final Project Requirements (with the exception of the Written Manifesto which should be consolidated to a single slide containing 3-4 sentences of a thesis statement capturing the topic of study, a position on this topic, your claim about design agency to address this topic, and specifically, what design elements you’ve explored in your thesis in this address). Students may elect to also print or plot selected original design drawings they produced (analytical or projective) from their digital presentation to pin up in the space. Likewise, students are encouraged to bring any sketch and/or final models they have created to display as well.
- April 814, 2024: Preparation of a digital file for a 24 x 36” poster summarizing the thesis to be exhibited in the HAA department for the academic year to follow. A suggested template will be provided and a workshop will be held on March 26 25 (20242025, date subject to change and TBC) for assistance with poster preparation. Examples of previous posters can be found here (AY21-22) and here (AY22-23).
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