Senior Tutorial

Senior tutorial is a full-year course for those seniors writing honors theses. Students work in individual tutorials with a faculty advisor and a tutor. Primary concentrators in the humanities track and joint concentrators in the language track are expected to employ some degree of primary language skills in the course of their research. Preparing for an honors thesis should begin in the junior year. Students should discuss potential thesis topics with professors and tutorial instructors and further explore these topics in papers written for tutorials or other courses.

Harvard offers several grants to allow students to travel to East Asia in the summer between the junior and senior years. (Information on grant opportunities is available at the Asia Center (http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~asiactr/) and the EAS office). As applications are due in March, students should begin thinking about topics and writing a proposal early in the spring semester, or before. 

Copies of recent EAS theses can be found in the EAS tutorial office at 9 Kirkland Place.

Guidelines for thesis writing

Thesis Schedule

Past EAS thesis topics