Dr. Patrick Ryan

CYS 4403E Senior Project

Full Year Course - 2023-24

Thursdays 6:30-9:30 PM
FB 110

Drs. Patrick Ryan and Daniella Bendo
pryan2@uwo.ca / dbendo2@uwo.ca
 

Dr. Ryan's Office: Wemple 255
Hours: 5:30-6:30 W
or by Appointment

Dr. Bendo's Office: FB 301 
Hours:TBA
or by Appointment


COURSE DESCRIPTION:

An independent research project in Childhood and Youth Studies under the direction of a faculty advisor.

In the 2023-24 year, there will be ten students admitted to the CYS Senior Project course.  Each student will meet weekly with their advisor, and we will meet collectively approximately 12 times during the year as we pass the key 'bench marks' of the research process. See the course schedule for more information.

Prerequisite(s): Admission by permission of the Chair of Childhood and Youth Studies,
and completion of CYS 3311F/G, or 3312F/G, or 3313F/G, or 3314F/G.

Extra Information: 3 hours.

 


MARKING SYSTEM:

Assignment

Percentage

Dates: Presentation/Text

Topic Statement

2%

Sept 14/Sept 18

Annotated Bibliography

8%

Oct 5/Oct 10

Lit. Rev. & Question Statement

15% or 11%

Oct  26/Nov 6

Research Plan 

11% or 7%

Nov 23/Nov 27

Evidence Reports

2%

Dec 7 & Jan 11

Thesis & Outline  6% Feb 15


Analysis


10%


Feb 19-29

Complete Draft

15%

Mar 14

Revised Draft

5%

Mar 28

Oral Presentation

10%

Apr 4

Senior Paper

20%

Apr 11


COURSE ACTIVITY AND POLICIES:

This course allows students to plan and implement a project following their own interests in coordination with others. The research projects will be broken into more than a dozen smaller tasks under the guidance of an advisor. Students will also report to the group as they complete each of these tasks and receive marked feed-back from their advisor.  

As a result of its structure, the course relies upon good communication with faculty advisors and eager participation in discussions with the other student researchers.  

Any usage of artificial intelligence or language generation or translation applications by students to complete assigned work for this course must be approved by the instructor and noted by the student in the submitted work itself. Writing text and then feeding it into a computer application to improve or translate your own words, changing a few words, and then submitting this text as if it was your own constitutes plagiarism. You must compose text, choose words, construct logic flow, structure sentences and paragraphs to organize, synthesize, interpret information with your own mind. When you borrow language or ideas from another person or from a machine this must be acknowledged with quotation marks and/or citations.


COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY WIDE ACADEMIC POLICIES:

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