The senior thesis is…

the culminating work of WCA’s Humanities program. It is a summative and integrative project that requires students to use the rhetorical skills developed at all phases of their learning at WCA to develop a thoughtful and persuasive argument on a chosen topic. Their thesis and topic must be things of depth and significance about which Christians can reasonably disagree.

The thesis is not meant to be, primarily, a research paper. It is an argument which will, as a matter of course, rely on good research to make its argument thoroughly and comprehensively. However, unlike a thesis at the collegiate or graduate level, it is not intended to demonstrate specific knowledge of a field in which the student has particular expertise or training. Rather, it is intended to demonstrate the students’ rhetorical skills that have been trained throughout their WCA career, and the ability to use the ideas and arguments discussed and evaluated throughout their studies.

Students think, research, debate, and discern in order to deliver an approximately 20 minute presentation, which is followed by a defense before a panel of academics.

thesis
schedule

Thursday, April 16

Friday, April 17

Times TBD