HD4081 Research and Thesis Development

This course is designed to advance students’ critical thinking, research and inquiry skills, and all other competencies required to produce a strong thesis proposal. Targeted workshops in both the in-residence and distance-learning phases of the course serve to keep students researching, writing, drafting, and thinking at an advanced level. Enrollment limited to students in Curriculum 692.

Prerequisite

HD3180

Lecture Hours

4

Lab Hours

0

Course Learning Outcomes

• Refine and advance hands-on familiarity with relevant Center and university systems and templates, particularly (but not exclusively) related to thesis work.
• Gain practice and proficiency in university style and standards for original, advanced study (thesis).
• Devise and assess complex questions of policy and practice in homeland security.
• Identify, evaluate, and synthesize relevant scholarly and expert literature.
• Analyze the relative merits and modalities of multi-disciplinary homeland security research, that is, diverse approaches to answering complex questions of policy and strategy.
• Design a graduate-level research proposal/agenda to drive an advanced-level contribution to the study, discourse, and practice of Homeland Security.