62-910 CFA-EM2 Thesis Studio
6–24 units, Carnegie Mellon University
This course is a seminar to guide Masters of Arts in Emerging Media students through the process of conceiving, developing, testing and documenting a thesis project to be completed in the fourth semester. Students pursuing this pathway are expected to generate and pursue selfdirected, independent research, in support of which this course centers around reading, writing, making, discussion, and public speaking. Semester activities will include, but are not limited to identification of a research inquiry, and development of critical questions for an indepth engagement with a topic in emerging media primary and secondary research into prior work, and generation of a bibliography development of critical arguments that will structure the writing process, and completion of a draft chapter consultation with secondary thesis advisors and completion of project experimentssketches, maintenance of a research blog, and practice in public presentations e.g. spoken presentations and slide lectures.
Prerequisites: none listed
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