There are no changes that will affect your research education at SSW. Second summer students will take the foundation research course and will write a thesis over the fall-spring terms. The thesis can be a faculty-sponsored empirical project conducted individually or as a group, as the project is defined. Options for doing such projects vary depending on faculty projects: what is available this year will be described during the summer. Your thesis can also be an individually designed and carried out empirical project, which each student will work to develop with a Research Adviser assigned towards the end of the summer. Information about the thesis can be found at the page linked below. The process will be explained at the thesis orientation meeting held by Thesis Coordinator Jean LaTerz on June 8th.
For more information, visit http://www.smith.edu/ssw/acad_msw_thesis.php