Students electing this subject must secure the approval of the Head of the Anthropology Program. HASS credit for Special Topics subjects awarded only by individual petitions to the Committee on Curricula. Exceptional 9-unit projects occasionally approved. For students in the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program. Taken during the first term of the student's two-term commitment to the thesis project.
Student works closely with an individual faculty tutor.
Includes oral presentation of thesis progress early in the term, assembling and revising the final text, and meeting at the close with a committee of faculty evaluators to discuss the successes and limitations of the project.