CHC Thesis Roles & Responsibilities

Design Your Project

Student

  • Gain a foundation in your field through coursework
  • Generate ideas for thesis
  • Build relationships with faculty
  • Enroll in HC 277H Thesis Orientation
  • Ask faculty to serve as committee members
  • Submit application to take HC 477H Thesis Prospectus and enroll in the class
  • Meet with your primary thesis advisor regularly about your thesis plan beginning early in the term you take HC 477H

Primary Thesis Advisor

  • Make a considered decision regarding commitment to mentor student as primary thesis advisor
  • Discuss field-specific mentoring expectations with advisee
  • Mentor advisee as they refine their project concept
  • Sign HC 477H permission form so advisee can register
  • Work with advisee on thesis plan as they take 477H and attend a 30-minute in-class oral presentation
  • Sign off on final version of thesis prospectus at end of 477H

CHC Representative

  • Agree to serve when asked or assist student in finding an alternative CHC representative if unavailable

Academic and Thesis Programs Manager Miriam Jordan

  • Assist students with registration issues around HC 477H
  • Check eligibility of committee members
  • Maintain list of available CHC representatives

Implement Your Ideas

Student

  • Set up meetings and communicate regularly with primary thesis advisor
  • Follow through on commitments to project and primary thesis advisor
  • Seek out grant funding as appropriate
  • If doing collaborative work, follow guidance
  • Take steps necessary to obtain any needed research permissions (e.g., human subjects)
  • Keep full committee up to date on progress and projected defense term.

Primary Thesis Advisor

  • Respond to advisee questions and be reasonably available for meetings
  • Provide regular feedback and guidance
  • Supervise independent study thesis credits if asked and available to do so
  • Write letters to support appropriate grant funding applications
  • Ensure advisee obtains any needed research permissions (e.g., human subjects)

CHC Representative

  • Answer questions from student and primary thesis advisor about CHC processes
  • Support student when challenges arise

Academic and Thesis Programs Manager Miriam Jordan

  • Answer questions from student and primary thesis advisor about CHC processes

Communicate Your Results

Student

  • Provide drafts to primary thesis advisor with ample time for feedback
  • Engage productively with primary thesis advisor feedback
  • Schedule defense and reserve room
  • Circulate final, primary thesis advisor approved copy of formatted thesis to committee and CHC 10 calendar days before defense
  • Prepare for oral defense
  • Make needed revisions promptly
  • Submit final thesis and Scholars’ Bank authorization form to CHC
  • If applicable, fulfill any dissemination/archiving steps required by research group or permissions (e.g., human subjects) and close out process.

Primary Thesis Advisor

  • Review draft of thesis and provide feedback in advance of circulation to CHC representative and any additional committee members
  • Mentor advisee in preparation for the defense (for their presentation and Q&A)
  • Attend the defense, including evaluation of the thesis in accordance with CHC and disciplinary standards
  • Review final draft of thesis and communicate any required revisions to the thesis to the advisee
  • If appropriate, nominate advisee for CHC thesis award
  • Sign off on final submitted version of the thesis

CHC Representative

  • Read the thesis, providing feedback from a generalist perspective
  • Share CHC evaluation criteria with the committee, attend the defense, and participate in evaluation of the thesis
  • Send an email to CHC’s Academic and Thesis Programs Manager Miriam Jordan after the defense notifying her of the outcome

Academic and Thesis Programs Manager Miriam Jordan

  • Confirm scheduled defenses
  • Facilitate pre-defense formatting review process
  • Check final theses for formatting issues
  • Submit final approved thesis to Scholars’ Bank
  • Notify registrar’s office that thesis requirement is completed