SENIOR INDEPENDENT WORK DEADLINES
CLASS OF 2021
Due | Explanation of Material Due |
September 28* | Five-page prospectus including an outline, bibliography, summary of your sociological research question and its significance, and your hypothesis/65raims/ purposes. This progress report should also include a preliminary title page. Submit an electronic copy to your adviser and Donna DeFrancisco (defran@princeton.edu) by 4:00pm. Hard copies will not be accepted. |
October 5 | IRB application submitted as per their instructions. |
October 16 | Funding requests through SAFE. Last day of application period. |
October 19 - 23 | Funding decisions made by department. |
October 26 - 30 | Intensive interviewing or data cleaning/ collection during Fall Break. |
December 4* | Draft of methods and data chapter including summary statistics for quantitative papers; for qualitative papers, describe two to three key themes and provide up to three examples from interviews or texts illustrating each theme. Include a two-page memo on the key themes in your literature review and how the summary statistics or the qualitative data illustrate/ engage the literature. Submit an electronic copy to your adviser and Donna DeFrancisco (defran@princeton.edu) by 4:00pm. Hard copies will not be accepted. |
February 16* | Draft of complete thesis. Submit an electronic copy to your adviser and Donna DeFrancisco (defran@princeton.edu) by 4:00pm. Hard copies will not be accepted. |
March 15* | Respond to adviser’s comments. Submit an electronic copy to your adviser and Donna DeFrancisco (defran@princeton.edu) by 4:00pm. Hard copies will not be accepted. |
April 9** | Final version of Senior Thesis. Submit one (1) unbound hard copy, and one (1) PDF, (not Google Docs), electronic copy. Due to Donna DeFrancisco (defran@princeton.edu) by 4:00pm. Upload a copy to Thesis Central at Mudd Library. |
May 5-6 | Departmental Examinations and Posters. See Part II, Section 2.31, of the Department’s Undergraduate Handbook for more information. |
*Unless an extension has been granted by the Director of Undergraduate Studies, students who fail to turn in their written work by the prescribed due date will be penalized one-third of a letter grade on their final independent-work grade.
**Students who fail to turn in their final written work by Friday, April 9, 2021 will be penalized one-third of a letter grade for every 48 hours (or fraction thereof) of unexcused lateness, weekend days included.