Honors Thesis in Earth Sciences

Course content

1. 1Choosing a research questionComing
2. 2Reading the literatureComing
3. 3Writing the proposalComing
4. 4Research ethics, permits and Indigenous partnershipsComing
5. 5Planning field and laboratory workComing
6. 6Collecting and managing dataComing
7. 7Analyzing resultsComing
8. 8Figures and mapsComing
9. 9Writing the thesisComing
10. 10Peer review and revisionComing
11. 11Presenting a poster and a talkComing
12. 12Capstone: the thesis defenseComing

Requirements

• EASC-301 Structural Geology
• EASC-410 Geoscience Data Analysis and Geostatistics

Recommended background. You can start any course at any time.

Description

An independent research project from proposal to field or laboratory work, analysis, thesis and defense.

Part of the Science stream, typically taken in year 4.