Instructor: Alparslan Parlakçi  email 

phone: (212) 311 54 13   room: D 143A

Course Description

A thesis study that has been undertaken in Comp 451 will be proceeded with..

Instructor and Assistants

Lectures are given by Asst. Prof. Dr. Alpaslan Parlakçı.

Course Objectives

The fundamental objective of the course is to provide students an opportunity to study an area of special interest which is greater in depth than the general curriculum and prepare a dissertation theses in that particular field. The class work requires to submit regular “Progression Reports” at least once a three or four weeks. The reports are going to be evaluated on the basis of presentations that will be done in the class time along with discussions.

What is expected from students

The students are expected to follow the three hours per week regular class work in which the content and format instructions and the presentations of “Progression Reports” will be covered. They are responsible of making and attending the preparatory presentations which reflect the developments of the improvements in their thesis study.

Tentative course plan

• Introduction on how the course will be carried out.

• Scheduling the flow of the working phases towards the preparation of the dissertation thesis progress reports.

• Reviewing the guidelines on how to prepare the progress reports.

• Presentation of the thesis progress reports in the class time and making discussions on the developments that have been achieved by each student.

• Giving an opportunity to make interviews with the prospective supervisors on a particular topic.

• Reporting the results of these investigations.

• Introducing how to write the thesis.

• Demonstration of a well organized thesis and discussion on the defense strategy that will be adopted.

• Defense of the thesis work.

Grading Policy

Knowledge pre-requisites

The students need to have an ultimate eagerness, patience and hard working skills for a complete succession.