2019-2020 Graduate and Professional Program Catalog (Updated Spring 2020) 
    
    May 19, 2024  
2019-2020 Graduate and Professional Program Catalog (Updated Spring 2020) [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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CHEM 799 Master’s Thesis Research

Credit 1-6
Students who are working on their Master of Science thesis register in this course which will count towards the partial fulfillment of curriculum requirements for the MS degree in Chemistry. The student is required to prepare a proposal for a detailed research study, have that proposal approved by an appropriate faculty Advisory Committee, complete the proposed study, and write and defend the completed Thesis in a final oral examination. The work will be conducted independently by the student outside the context of structured class meetings. The student’s role is to identify an appropriate research question, develop a systematic research plan to address it, and then execute this plan themselves, collecting, analyzing and interpreting the resulting data and writing them up in standard scholarly format. The faculty advisor’s role is to provide guidance in these various steps where appropriate, such as in helping to identify the research question and in providing feedback on the student’s proposed research design, its execution, and the data.



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