This Form Is to Be Completed by the Student and Returned to the Graduate Director In

APPLICATION FOR REGISTERING FOR THESIS I OR THESIS II CREDITS

VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY

COMMUNICATION DEPARTMENT

THIS FORM IS TO BE COMPLETED BY THE STUDENT AND RETURNED TO THE GRADUATE SECRETARY IN COMMUNICATION IN ORDER TO REGISTER FOR THESIS CREDITS. SEE THE GRADUATE SCHOOL ACADEMIC CALENDAR FOR THE LAST DATE BY WHICH STUDENTS CAN SIGN UP FOR COURSES OR CONSULT:

http://www.villanova.edu/enroll/registrar/calendar/

NAME______

First Middle Last

VILLANOVA ID # ______

TELEPHONE NUMBER ______

______Quality Point Average

______Semester hours completed (including present registration)

WORKING TITLE OF PROPOSED THESIS: ______

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THESIS DIRECTOR’S SIGNATURE:______

2ND COMMITTEE MEMBER’S SIGNATURE______

3RD COMMITTEE MEMBER’S SIGNATURE______

GRADUATE DIRECTOR’S APPROVAL ______

DATE ______

Please attach a timetable which includes, at a minimum, prospectus completion date, prospectus defense date, thesis completion date, thesis oral defense date, and Graduate school due date for receipt of two copies of final thesis.

8/05

MASTER OF ARTS IN COMMUNICATION

NATURE OF THE MASTER’S THESIS IN COMMUNICATION

Students may choose to write a thesis instead of completing a comprehensive examination. Students planning to continue in a Ph.D. program or students interested in completing an extensive research project are normally encouraged to choose the thesis option. Fulltime students normally sign up for 6 credits of thesis direction (Thesis I and Thesis II) during their final semester. Part time students normally sign up for three credits of thesis direction over the course of their final two semesters. The application to register for thesis credits must be completed prior to registering for thesis credits. The form is available on line at www.communication.villanova.edu/grad

Please note that the date by which students must submit two copies of the final approved draft of their thesis to the Graduate School is listed in the Graduate Catalog or is available online at:

http://www.villanova.edu/enroll/registrar/calendar

Students select a thesis director who agrees to serve as the chair of the student’s committee. The student, after consulting with their thesis director, secures two additional graduate faculty members to serve on the student’s committee, one of whom must be a graduate faculty member in the Communication Department. The student writes a prospectus (which, in revised form, often serves as the first or first and second chapters of the final thesis) which is submitted to the student’s committee at least two weeks prior to the date of the student’s oral defense of the prospectus. Once the committee approves the prospectus, the student completes the writing of the thesis under the thesis director’s supervision. Upon completion of an approved thesis, the student submits the thesis draft to his/her committee, at least two weeks prior to the date of the scheduled oral thesis defense. Upon successful completion of the oral defense, the student makes any final revisions, which, once approved, constitutes the student’s final thesis. One copy of the final thesis is submitted to the thesis director and two copies are submitted to the Graduate School by the required date listed in the Graduate School catalog. Please consult the Graduate School’s “Guide to Writing of the Master’s Thesis” for style and formatting of the thesis. It is available online at:
http://www.gradartsci.villanova.edu/policies/1_A%20Guide%20to%20the%20Writing%20of%20the%20Master%20Thesis%20(revised).doc

STUDENTS SHOULD CONSULT WITH THEIR ADVISORS AND/OR MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNICATION GRADUATE FACULTY IF THEY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS REGARDING THE MASTER’S THESIS.