Student Bulletin Board
2011-09-21
Memorandum regarding the Thesis
This schedule is for students who entered in October.
1) Six credit points will be conferred upon passing the final oral examination.
2) The thesis can only be written during the second year of the degree.
3) The paper must be written under the academic supervision of a faculty member. Faculty members from the following faculties can become academic supervisors:
* Professors, associate professors, and visiting professors from the Graduate School of Public Policy, the Graduate School of Law and Politics, the Graduate School of Economics, the Graduate Schools of Arts and Science, the Institute of Social Sciences, etcetera, who also teach a class at GraSPP in the current academic year.
* Research lecturers, lecturers of endowed subjects, and part-time lecturers are not permitted to be academic advisors.
Please refer to the Thesis academic supervisor list for a list of faculty members who are able to become supervisors. ( PDF, 198KB ）
4) Students who intend to write a Thesis must first gain the consent of a faculty member from the Thesis academic supervisor list to become their academic advisor. Upon gaining consent students must submit a Thesis enrollment form bearing the seal of their academic advisor in the end of November as specified at the end of this document. After submitting the aforementioned form, students may begin work on their thesis under the supervision of their academic advisor.
5) Students must decide upon their title and submit a Thesis Title Report in late March.
6) Final submission is due in mid May as specified at the end of this document.
7) The Thesis should have an approximate character count of no more than 100,000 characters (Japanese) and 35,000 words (English). Students must gain permission in advance from their academic advisor if they believe that their Thesis will exceed these limits.
8) The Thesis will be registered as a six credit point class upon enrollment. Please be aware that these six credit points will still be included in a student's annual credit point total (maximum 38 per annum) even if the student does not submit a Thesis (please refer to the Graduate School of Public Policy regulations, Article 11, Section 2). No registration in UT mate is required.
9) Below are the deadlines from enrollment through to submission:
| Mon. 28th Nov, 2011 - Fri. 2nd Dec | Enrollment period |
| Mon. 26th Mar, 2012 - Wed. 28th | Title submission period |
| By 4 p.m. Thu. 24th May, 2012 | Final submission (strictly observed) |
| Late July, 2012 | Oral examination |
- Thesis guidelines ( ZIP, 74KB )
※ Documents are also available at the administration office.