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Course Option

Thesis Option

A student who has written certain technical material in academic or nonacademic work may use this material to satisfy the writing requirement. The student should apply to the Graduate Studies Committee on Form CS-4. The relevant documentation should be attached; it will be returned.

Members of the Committee are normally willing to sign a non-disclosure agreement and read proprietary documents in confidence. Approval requires a two-thirds vote of the Graduate Studies Committee.

Documents may be accepted as satisfying this option only when all the following conditions have been met:

1. The document is written in the English language.
2. The student is the principal author of the document. If there are co-authors, each will be asked to acknowledge that the student did the bulk of the writing.
3. The document has technical content and is approximately 5000 words long (or longer).
4. The document has been reviewed, evaluated, and approved for both style and content by each of at least two readers.
5. The review process was such that the result of a negative review would have been rejection of the document.
6. The review process was unrelated to this writing requirement.

Documents that do not satisfy this policy include: (1) term papers and project reports for UNC-CH COMP courses, and (2) papers written primarily to satisfy this option. Publication in an unrefereed collection does not immediately disqualify a document.