# Your Thesis/Dissertation title and length here, please. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 3, 2003, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-thesis-dissertation-title-and-length-here-please/199344 "2003-09-03T16:30:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Survey1215](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecb155/32.png) [@Survey1215](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Survey1215)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2003, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-thesis-dissertation-title-and-length-here-please/199344/1 "2003-09-03T16:30:51Z")
Mine (for an M.A. in Media Communications, Public Relations emphasis): “Essential Stakeholder Management Functions for Small College and University Athletic Programs.” Geeeeeeeee golly, its gonna be exciting. All 75-90 pages of it. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2003, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-thesis-dissertation-title-and-length-here-please/199344/2 "2003-09-03T16:34:56Z")
“A Simulation Study of the Analysis of Mixtures Using the Cramer-Von Mises Statistic” (M.S. Mathematics, Statistics concentration, 1982, ~87 pages). The study showed that the Cramer-Von Mises statistic sucked at analyzing mixtures. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2003, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-thesis-dissertation-title-and-length-here-please/199344/3 "2003-09-03T16:37:26Z")
“Making Sense of the Jonestown Suicides: A Sociological History of the Peoples Temple” (PhD, sociology of religion, 1983, about 225 pp., as I recall) ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2003, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-thesis-dissertation-title-and-length-here-please/199344/4 "2003-09-03T16:39:18Z")
“Parish, People and the English Bible, 1525-1553,” D.Phil Modern History, Michaelmas 2003 (one hopes), 319 pages with bibliography, appendices and maps. “An Anaylsis of the Church-Plate Certificates of 1547-53 in Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex,” M.St Modern History, Trinity 1996, ~40 pages. “Pure and Unmixt: Sir John Cheke’s English Bible,” M.A. Modern History, Summer 1995, 67 pages. “Thomas Cromwell and the English Bible: A Study in Motivation,” B.A. Honors Modern History, Spring 1994, 45 pages. Well, that should cover it. ---
**Author:** ![Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/soul_brother_number_two/32/3515_2.png) [@Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soul_Brother_Number_Two)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2003, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-thesis-dissertation-title-and-length-here-please/199344/5 "2003-09-03T16:40:05Z")
“Empty as a Bucket, or: Damn Dumb Kid.” It will be somewhere between 150-200 pages, for an MFA in fiction at St. Mary’s of California. ---
**Author:** ![LibrarySpy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f9ae1b/32.png) [@LibrarySpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LibrarySpy)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2003, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-thesis-dissertation-title-and-length-here-please/199344/6 "2003-09-03T17:00:21Z")
“The State of Lesbian Detective Fiction in Four Public Libraries in North Carolina” M.S., Library Science, 44 pages ---
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2003, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-thesis-dissertation-title-and-length-here-please/199344/7 "2003-09-03T17:20:55Z")
“The Preparation Orientations of Undergraduate Departments” PhD in Higher Education, maybe around 200 pages (can’t recall precisely). No colon in the title, yet they still gave me the degree! ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2003, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-thesis-dissertation-title-and-length-here-please/199344/8 "2003-09-03T17:26:57Z")
“The Origin of Wide Angle Tailed Radio Galaxies” I’m still working on it 😛 ---
**Author:** ![ENugent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/4af34b/32.png) [@ENugent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ENugent)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2003, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-thesis-dissertation-title-and-length-here-please/199344/9 "2003-09-03T17:29:10Z")
“Experimental Investigation of Stress and Strain Fields in a Ductile Matrix Surrounding an Elastic Inclusion,” Ph.D., Materials Engineering, 1997. 165 pages of text, plus 81 pages of code (image analysis and analytical modeling routines). ---
**Author:** ![NotWithoutRage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/22d042/32.png) [@NotWithoutRage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NotWithoutRage)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2003, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-thesis-dissertation-title-and-length-here-please/199344/10 "2003-09-03T17:31:08Z")
Does undergrad count? “The Constitutionality of Same-Sex Marriage” (B.A. in Political Science with Departmental Honors) – 60 pgs ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2003, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-thesis-dissertation-title-and-length-here-please/199344/11 "2003-09-03T17:37:13Z")
M.A. thesis: “Courtship, Seduction, and Power in Shakespeare’s First Tetralogy.” 37-ish pages, I think. (I am a Person of Few Words, and I remember frantically trying out different typefaces so it would be over the 35-page minimum limit.) PhD dissertation: “Commoners and Communities in the Elizabethan History Play.” I’ve only written eight pages, so I don’t know how long it’s going to be, but once again I’m shooting for as short as possible. Both in English, obviously. ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2003, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-thesis-dissertation-title-and-length-here-please/199344/12 "2003-09-03T18:40:48Z")
MURP (Master’s in Urban and Regional Planning): “A Community-Based Urban Design Evaluation Process for the Carytown Neighborhood.” I think it was about 150 pages with maps and graphics. A co-worker got his BSc. in Agricultural Engineering and his thesis was entitled “The Use of a Geographic Information System to Determine Optimal Placement of a Center Pivot Irrigation System in an Irregularly Shaped Plot.” I think the title was longer than the actual thesis. ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Macphisto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@Ms\_Macphisto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Macphisto)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2003, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-thesis-dissertation-title-and-length-here-please/199344/13 "2003-09-03T18:54:28Z")
“The Role of CD30 in the Regulation of T Cell Function,” M.Sc., 2003. (I’m giving the library their copy today!) 52 pages, including references. ---
**Author:** ![Snowcarpet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowcarpet/32/257_2.png) [@Snowcarpet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowcarpet)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2003, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-thesis-dissertation-title-and-length-here-please/199344/14 "2003-09-03T18:56:15Z")
“Witches in the Library: A Survey of Two Local Neo-pagan Groups, Their Characteristics, Library Usage, and Library Collection Requests,” 2000. Research paper for Masters in Library Science, about 40p. A big survey project, so not all that much text. -Snowcarpet ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2003, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-thesis-dissertation-title-and-length-here-please/199344/15 "2003-09-03T19:06:46Z")
The library science ones are interesting - I had a very difficult time choosing a thesis topic, so I’ve chosen to take the comprehensive exam in the spring of 2004 and do the culminating experience (seminar, knowledge management, this semester). For my undergrad I wrote my senior thesis on myths surrounding pregnancy and childbirth in medieval Europe. It was around 25 pages, IIRC. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2003, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-thesis-dissertation-title-and-length-here-please/199344/16 "2003-09-03T19:21:09Z")
Bachelor’s – **A Biomechanical Study of a Karate Strike** Master’s – **A KCl:O2- Laser** Doctorate- \*\*Rotational Behavior and Vibrational Energy Transfer between CN- ions in Alkali Halides \*\* Yep, I had to write _three_ theses. ---
**Author:** ![Dragon\_Phoenix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@Dragon\_Phoenix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragon_Phoenix)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2003, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-thesis-dissertation-title-and-length-here-please/199344/17 "2003-09-03T19:39:13Z")
PhD: The development of a thermostable methanation catalyst, Delft (1984) about 100 pages. ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2003, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-thesis-dissertation-title-and-length-here-please/199344/18 "2003-09-03T19:54:50Z")
Bachelor’s (Environmental Science) – **Understanding the Exponential Growth of Duckweed** about 25 pages. Lots of classes, but no post degrees. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2003, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-thesis-dissertation-title-and-length-here-please/199344/19 "2003-09-03T20:11:19Z")
Library Science sounds so interesting. Maybe I’m weird like that. ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2003, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-thesis-dissertation-title-and-length-here-please/199344/20 "2003-09-03T20:16:08Z")
“Near Liberty And Other Fictions”: a creative writing/American Lit dissertation, about 200 pages, as I recall. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-thesis-dissertation-title-and-length-here-please/199344.md?page=2)