Justice Studies M.A. Thesis Defense Procedures

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在这里，你会发现围绕论文答辩的程序和过程.A. program in Justice Studies. Graduate Plans of Study and Thesis Resources provides thesis-related forms and materials.

The Thesis Defense Process

Setting the Defense Date

答辩时间应与候选人和委员会全体成员协商, 哪些应该在预期的毕业截止日期之前有足够的时间来确保修改是可能的, (一般在秋季11月下旬和春季4月中旬).

Please Note: To schedule a defense, 学生必须在论文的第二学期注册，并且已经提交了一份 Thesis Proposal Approval Form (sample) signed by all committee members, 以及完成所有其他突出的学位要求(或在答辩的同一学期完成这些要求).

Directly after Scheduling

Once the defense is scheduled:

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Advertising and Room Booking

Advertising

Defenses are public events. One to two weeks before the defense, it should be advertised to, at minimum, all Departmental faculty and all other students in the M.A. in Justice Studies program. 向其他系感兴趣的教员和其他学生做广告可能是合适的, such as those considering writing an honors thesis, potential M.A. students, and those interested in the topic. 候选人也可以邀请任何他们想邀请的人来为自己辩护. 在安排辩护房间时，应该考虑到这些客人——教室可能比部门会议室更合适. 日程安排还应考虑到委员会将需要搬到一个私人地点进行审议.

Booking the Defense Room and Time Block

  • 在候选人和所有委员会成员同意的情况下，可以在Zoom上安排辩护, but the requirement that they be public remains.
  • Defenses should be scheduled in a 2-hour time block. While many will take only 90 minutes, 重要的是要保留足够的时间，以防讨论时间过长.

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At the Defense

Presentation

答辩首先由委员会主席介绍候选人和委员会. 然后，候选人有大约20分钟的时间来正式陈述论文. 这个演示应该是为没有读过论文的观众设计的.g. the public audience) and should cover, at minimum, the research question, most important prior literature, methods, a brief summary of the findings, and implications. 一些候选人可能希望额外讨论他们是如何想到这个话题的, what they learned from the thesis process, 如果重新开始，他们可能会做得不同. 候选人可以在陈述过程中先发制人地解决任何可能的批评.

Question and Answer Session

演讲结束后，主席主持了一个问答环节. Committee members’ questions should be prioritized, 但也应该留出时间让公众提问.

Deliberation

Once the discussion has concluded, 还有至少40分钟的辩护时间, 委员会成员应离开房间(如果在Zoom上安排), 委员会成员可以去分组讨论室(或者把候选人和客人放在候诊室)进行讨论. These deliberations should determine if:

  • the candidate has passed the defense
  • 在最终提交论文之前，委员会将需要进行哪些编辑和修改
  • 在签署批准书之前，委员会是否想再看一遍论文

As per the graduate manual, 成功的辩护需要所有委员会成员的一致同意. If the defense is not successful, a repeat of the defense may be scheduled, and the committee determines how that will proceed.

Decision

When deliberations are complete, 委员会回到辩护室(或者委员会主席将所有人召集到Zoom室). If the candidate has successfully passed, they should be congratulated, and then the chair, with assistance from committee members, 向候选人概述他们需要做的修改.

委员会主席可以(虽然不是必须)提供庆祝元素，如在辩护结束时提供不含酒精的气泡饮料. 请记住，酒精是不允许与学生在RIC活动.

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After the Defense

主席和候选人应计划会面进一步讨论修订并制定修订计划, if required, a date for providing the revised thesis to the committee. All members of the committee must sign the Thesis Approval Sheet (sample). 委员会成员通常同意让委员会主席决定修改和修改是否令人满意，但在决定是否签字之前，他们确实有权看到修改后的论文.

最后的论文必须按照 Thesis Guidelines 及副本必须按指引所述交付亚当斯图书馆.

Once everything is complete, 主席应该让研究生项目主任和注册办公室知道学生已经准备好毕业了.

问题应直接向现任研究生项目主任提出.