Higher Degree Disseration
Operational Summary of HDD
Overview
• Thesis and dissertation usually done
in the last semester for partial fulfillment of needs of the degree. The
student usually registers for 9 to 16 units and gets a letter grade upon
completion.
• Each of these courses is of one
semester duration and is operated round the year (August to December and
January to May).
• The aim of the thesis/dissertation
course is to train a student in the methodology of research, to cultivate a
logical and creative thinking and to make him express his findings in the form
of a scientific report.
•
The Associate Dean, Academic-Graduate
Studies and Research Division (AGSRD) is the IC for this
course.
• HDD can be on-campus or off-campus,
and on campus thesis can be further carried out in a department other than the
student’s own.
• It is the responsibility of the
thesis/dissertation supervisor to monitor the progress of the
student’s thesis/dissertation work as per the guidelines stated in
the handouts.
• Supervising thesis and dissertation
includes the conduction of various components such as mid-sem seminars and
reports and end-sem seminars and reports.
• Supervisors are expected to compile
the marks of the various components of their respective supervisees and
communicate the same to the DRC of their respective departments in accordance
with the deadlines mentioned in the hand-out.
•
The Departmental Research Committee (DRC) of
the individual departments must compile data pertaining to the various
evaluation components and submit the same to AGSRD by the deadline mentioned in
the respective handouts.
•
A student intending to pursue HDD in a
certain semester needs to pre-register for the same in the previous semester
through his/her respective DRC (details available in pre-registration
guidelines by AGSRD).
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Pre-registration includes the filling up of
several forms by interested students which are included in the pre-registration
guidelines.
• Among other things, these forms help
the student take consents from their supervisor of interest, HOD, an off-campus
organization, the PSD etc.
• Pre-registration data is
collated by the respective DRCs and communicated to AGSRD as per the format and
deadlines mentioned in the guidelines.
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In the beginning of the next semester, the
pre-registered students register for the HDD course. Off-campus students
register by email.
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Following registration, the thesis/dissertation
work is carried out as per the hand out.