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Department: ACCT

Course No: ACCT 296W

Title:  Senior Thesis in Accounting

Credits: 3

Contact: Lawrence J. Gramling

WQ: W only

Catalog Copy: ACCT 296W - Senior Thesis in Accounting. Either semester. Three credits. Hours by arrangement. Open only to Accounting Department Honors Students with consent of instructor and Department Head.

Course Information: a. The course objectives are to enable the student to conduct and prepare for publication an original research thesis within the area of Accounting.

b. No exams; weekly reading assignments are dependent on the instructor.

c. The major themes are research of issues in Accounting.

W Criteria :

1. This course is a senior thesis involvong considerable interacting and presentation of drafts between the student and the professor. This seems to be the exact spirit and letter of the rules for "W" courses.

2. No thesis in our department has ever been less than 15 pages.

3. The basis for the course IS the "W" component.

4. Each individual student completes a thesis proposal by which the schedule of submissions is detailed before approval by the Instructor, Department Honors Advisor and the Department Head.

Role of Grad Students: none

Supplementary Information: The ACCT 296W course has ALWAYS been a "W" class; the re-approval for this course fell through the cracks with the new GEOC structure. Approval of this should simply be a formality.