Co-terminal Media Studies Project

 

The Media Studies M.A. Project: COMM 290

The Media Studies M.A. Project: students following the Social Sciences track enroll in COMM 290 to complete a project over two consecutive quarters that must be pre-approved and supervised by the advisor. The completed MA project must be submitted to the advisor no later than the last day of classes of the second consecutive quarter.

The Media Studies Project is an original project guided by the student’s advisor. For example, it can be a thorough literature review, a write-up of an empirical or qualitative study, or a description of a novel methodology developed by the student. Most importantly, the advisor must pre-approve the content and format of the thesis. The student must work on the project with the advisor for a minimum of two quarters. The length of the thesis will vary according to project type. For example, exhaustive literature searches are often longer in terms of page length than write-ups of experiments. However, the amount of time and effort the student contributes to both types of projects are roughly equivalent. In sum, there is no length requirement, but typically theses are at least thirty pages and rarely more than 100 pages.