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(Core course for the MA in Global Security Studies). This course is designed both for students who are following the former thesis track and have already passed 470.804 RTI and 470. RT2 (or 470.709), and those students who are taking the new Research Study track and have already passed 470.851 Introduction to Qualitative Methods, and 470.854 Fundamentals of Quantitative Methods. (Students who switched from the old track to the new and have passed RTI and 470.854 are also eligible.) In this class, students on the thesis track will finish the final chapter of their thesis and complete the thesis as a whole, writing an introduction and conclusion that ties together their three chapters. Students in the new Research Study track will begin and complete a substantial piece of original research explicitly drawing on research methods they learned in the previous two classes. For both groups, class meetings are designed to give guidance in the clarification of issues, collection of data, assembly of various parts, and writing. The class will also prepare students for final defense. Graduation is subject to approval of the thesis or research study by the thesis committee. Students may enroll in this course only in their last semester of the MA program. All students will need to submit current work to the instructor before the semester. Research Study students will need a detailed research question; thesis students will need to submit their first chapters.