Academic
Catalog August 2009 - August 2010 Undergraduate
and Graduate
Our traditional 32-unit thesis option is an individually tailored plan of study that gives you experience in carrying out the kind of research you can expect to do throughout your professional career. This academic plan normally requires two calendar years of academic work that you may begin in either fall or spring term.
In preparing your thesis, we expect you to demonstrate your ability to work independently on a problem, your wide familiarity with the literature in your field, your command of the techniques and principles of research, and your ability to form valid generalizations from the data you use. We require a final oral defense of your thesis.
For this plan, you take the following 32 units, as well as any required remedial coursework:
FOR 505, 690 and 692 (6 units)
STA 570 (3 units)
3 units from STA 571, 572, 574, and 676; BIO 682; SOC 655; or another graduate-level course with significant content in statistics
12 units of formal coursework chosen with your major professor and thesis committee
8 units of FOR 699, for the research, writing, and oral defense of an approved thesis
(Please note that you may end up taking more than the 8 units of thesis credit you can count toward your degree because you must enroll for FOR 699 each term while you are working on your thesis.)
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