Senior Thesis

As a senior-level psychology capstone course, students will review an area of scientific literature related to psychology as determined by student interest and faculty approval. Students will write a review paper that integrates existing theory and data, and give a formal presentation. Review papers are critical evaluations of published material. Students will consider the progress of research toward clarifying a problem. They will draw on existing research literature to advance theory and will examine the development of theory to expand and refine theoretical constructs, present a new theory, or analyze existing theory.