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Step Five: Research and Data Analysis
Midyear requirements
In December, the department will report a sat/unsat grade for your fall term thesis work. This grade will be based upon three factors:
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Completion of your prospectus meeting
This assumes prior submission of a prospectus. If you have not submitted the long-overdue prospectus paperwork you must attend to this immediately to avoid an unsatisfactory grade report for your senior tutorial.
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Submission of a Midyear Progress Report Form
The midyear progress report should be submitted to the Psychology Undergraduate Office no later than 4 p.m., Thursday, 3 December, 2009. It should be a one-or-two-page description of your fall thesis work, and should also include your planned schedule for completion of your thesis research, data analysis, and writing before the thesis submission deadline of Thursday, March 11th, 2010. If you have encountered any particular problems or complications in your research this fall, please also briefly describe those issues in your report, as well as how you have been able to, or how you plan to, work through them. You may also want to share this report with your reader, especially if you have not been in touch with her/him since your prospectus meeting.
You need to provide your supervisor and co-supervisor with a copy of the description of your progress to date and the completion timeline, and ask them to review them and then assign you a grade on the Midyear Report Form. Make sure that both your supervisor and co-supervisor sign the form; email submissions will not be accepted, so plan ahead! Return the form to WJH 218 by 4 p.m., Thursday, 3 December, 2009
Dropping your thesis at midyear
If you are considering dropping your thesis, you need to decide by December, because if you do drop, you will need to submit a paper before the end of the fall examination period to get a grade of "satisfactory" in your senior tutorial for the fall term. (You can then divide the tutorial for one-semester credit and count it as one half-course of concentration elective in a regular program.) This paper needs to reflect work beyond the prospectus, and your supervisor(s) can set specific requirements for it. This paper is due no later than noon on Monday, 14 December 2009, with copies to both your thesis supervisor(s) and the Psychology Undergraduate Office.
As you shift from an honors to a regular program, your first half of
the senior tutorial (if you complete it satisfactorily) and Psychology
985 (if you took it last year) will count as concentration electives (with Psy 985 subject to lab limit rules for your class).
Your overall concentration requirements will also shift; if you have any
questions about completing the right number and type of concentration
courses, be sure to check with your concentration adviser.
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