YOUR
CHOICE OF THESIS OR PRACTICUM
You can research and write a minimum thirty page thesis for the
master’s degree or a minimum fifty page dissertation for the doctorate or you
can do a thirty hour master’s or a fifty hour doctoral practicum instead. If you
choose to write a thesis, you should set up a document file early in your study
in which to keep and organize your thesis or dissertation notes with page,
paragraph and sentence numbers so they can easily be relocated.
If you have questions you should contact your academic don for
ideas, suggestions and corrections. You shall want to research and write
something that is of value or interest to you personally. Take plenty of notes,
save anything you even suspect may be useful from the content -- along with the
thoughts that come to you.
When you are ready to write your major report, you can go through
your notes, separate the wheat from the chaff and organize the best material
into the logical categories that pertain to your interests. Weave the
appropriate material into a document with space between each concept that
captured your interest and connect them in a clear and concise manner in your
own words.
Make it say something important to you and your life.
Write everything in a businesslike manner and use a spell checker. Remember, as
one publishing house editor quipped -- “There are no great writers -- there are
only great rewriters.” Edit - edit - edit and always proof read the content
several times because the strangest things can creep in unawares and computers
do drop words and lines. You can print your thesis or dissertation and have it
bound in hard copy with gold script on the cover as an addition to your library.
Submit it to us via email or upload.
The practicum can also be discussed with your don and can
be a volunteer service for a group of people such as a scout troop, a nursing
home, a hospital or jail, a school or church or some other service organization
where you shall interact with people and apply your increasing Logotherapy
skills for their benefit and your growing wisdom. Service societies of all kinds
are always seeking speakers for their programs and will offer a free lunch and
sometimes a small fee.
Core courses of under one hundred pages and their collateral
volumes are rated at five academic units in a master’s program and at seven
units in a doctoral program. Core courses over one hundred pages and their
collateral volumes are rated at seven units in a MS program and at nine units
for a PhD program.
VIEW THE CORE AND COLLATERAL CURRICULUM
We do not use letter grades but use an appropriate or a
non-appropriate completion system that works best for committed scholars. If a
report is deemed inappropriate, your don shall guide you through a rewrite to
make it acceptable in your successful degree program.
