Week 1) Introduction: What is a Senior Thesis?
Formal requirements of the Art History Thesis
Week 2) Defining a research topic
Formulating a research question
Week 3) Abstract
Outline (1)
>Assignment 1 due: upload as a Word document via Turnitin portal on Moodle course site.
Week 4) Secondary sources
Library resources: Frohring, databases though JCU Discovery and beyond, ILL, Zotero
Week 5) Primary sources
Rome archives, online archives and world databases
>Assignment 2 due: upload as a Word document via Turnitin portal on Moodle course site.
Week 6) First readers and second readers
Schedules to completion and work-flow
>Assignment 3 due: upload as a Word document via Turnitin portal on Moodle course site.
Week 7) Bibliographies as works-in-progress
Literature review: state of the field
>Assignment 4 due: upload as a Word document via Turnitin portal on Moodle course site.
Week 8) Critical positioning
Methodology and “theory”
Week 9) Visual analysis
Visual analysis-context-issues
>Assignment 5due: upload as a Word document via Turnitin portal on Moodle course site.
Week 10) Outline (2)
Problem-shooting
Week 11) Conclusion
Introduction
Week 12) >Oral Presentations (1)
> Oral Presentations (2)
Week 13) Style guides: Chicago, footnotes
Figure, captions and the critical apparatus
Week 14) Proof-reading and reader feedback
Digital submission
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY: see our dedicated Moodle Readings folder for the full course bibliography and required readings not available through Frohring library as a hardcopy, ebook, or through J-Stor.