Honors Theses

All QSS majors are required to complete an independent research project, either a senior honors thesis, which takes a full academic year, or a one quarter research project in the student's last year on campus. All QSS research projects--honors theses and one quarter projects--are supervised by QSS-affiliated faculty at Dartmouth and by the QSS Director of Undergraduate Research. QSS research projects are independent, meaning that each student completes his or own project. However, QSS students working on research are embedded in a network of advisers and other QSS students. All QSS research projects must be publicly defended upon completion.

How to Complete an Honors Thesis in QSS

QSS Honors Thesis Guidelines

What's it like to write a QSS thesis

Andrea Sedlacek '20 presenting her thesis on "How Network Structure and Cultural Sentiments Shape Affective Alignment and Behavior Dynamics in Online Collaborative Task Groups"
Aidan Sheinberg '20 presenting his thesis on "Building Blocks of Opportunity?: The Effect of Low-Income Housing Tax Credits on Intergenerational Income Mobility for Disadvantaged Youths"
Grace Sherrill '20 presenting her thesis on "Consensus in Care: Deservingness, Policy Feedback, and Partisanship in the U.S. Long-Term Care System"
Sunny Drescher '20 presenting her thesis on "Engendering Support? The E ects of Gendered Information Cues on Voters' Policy Preferences"