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Special Study Options

Cross Registration

Can't find a specific course in the Tufts catalog? All full-time Tufts students are eligible to participate in all undergraduate courses and programs in arts and sciences at Boston University, Boston College and Brandeis University. Opportunities also exist for students to take courses at other Boston area institutions on an informal basis.

Thesis Honors Program

The Thesis Honors Program provides students with the opportunity to pursue a program of independent study leading to the preparation of a senior thesis, working closely with a faculty advisor. This two-semester experience in the senior year culminates with a defense of the work, either in oral or written form, to members of the appropriate department. The principal purpose of the program is to encourage and support the development of self-reliance, individual initiative, critical analysis, and other scholarly tools. Students in the program will work with appropriate faculty members who will direct the reading and research project. After completed theses are published, they become permanent fixtures at the Sapple library.

Independent Study

Independent study course work is often interdisciplinary, while research projects are either interdisciplinary or taken under faculty supervision. Projects have included studies of bacterial chromosomes, language development in young children, capital punishment, human vision, and African American literature. Over 200 faculty members on both the Medford/Somerville campus and the health sciences campus in Boston have sponsored students for research and the Independent Study program.

Interdisciplinary Minor

Drawing from the diversity of academic departments at Tufts, the University offers several interdisciplinary minors that address specific areas of study. The interdisciplinary minor program requires a designated cluster of five courses from at least three departments of the University and the completion of a substantial research paper appropriate to the focus of the minor. Some of the programs now available are Latin American Studies, Ethnic Groups in America, Women's Studies, Mass Communications and Media Studies and Multimedia Studies.

The Beautiful and the Beastly in Disney

The Beautiful and the Beastly in Disney

For the past 10 years, Sarah E. King, an instructor in the department of English, has been teaching a class called “Disney and the Childhood Canon.” The course looks at Disney films from the 1930s through the present, and analyzes them in light of their original literary sources—the “childhood canon” referred to in the course’s title—and as works in their own right...