A&P Thesis Seminar

Aesthetics and Politics Thesis Seminar. This
course is required for all MA Aesthetics &
Politics students. Open to the MA A&P Program
only. This seminar aims to guide students from
pre-writing to writing: it intends to accompany
them through the preparatory stages of the writing
so as to prepare them for the actual writing of
the thesis. Over the course of the seminar,
students will discuss their thesis topics with
their peers and generate (as well as workshop) the
various documents that are considered essential to
the pre-writing process: an abstract, a research
bibliography, a table of contents, a chapter
outline, and more. In addition, students will
familiarize themselves with the Aesthetics and
Politics program's thesis style guidelines. The
seminar will include a visit by Critical Studies
research librarian Marisa Méndez-Brady, who will
help students generate a research bibliography,
and who will explain the library's guidelines for
the final thesis deposit, which is required in
order for students to be awarded the MA degree.