BAC Thesis and Degree Project Final Documents
Deadline: Monday, December 9, 2024 at 7 pm ET
Final Document Overview
All graduating BAC students in Thesis and Degree Project are required to submit a final document before they graduate; MDS-RED students submit a final document in their studio course. The final document is a concise and edited text that incorporates the necessary writings, drawings, sketches, diagrams, maps, and resources used to develop the program and design of the student's thesis or degree project. The final document is signed by the student, faculty, and director and/or dean of the program as part of the student's completion of degree project or thesis studio.
It is strongly recommended that students work on the document as much as possible while they undertake the capstone process.
Final Document Content and Technical Requirements
The final documents have a number of content and technical requirements. For a complete overview of the requirements, click here.
Students submit their signed final documents to Academic Affairs by the document due date (see Academic Calendar).
In order to graduate, each student must submit one digital copy in PDF/A format to their course’s Moodle shell. The final document must be signed by the student, the instructor, and the director or dean of the program (for more information about who must sign the books, see the FAQs page). The book must be submitted by the school-wide deadline (in Fall 2024, that date is Monday, December 9, 2024 at 7 pm ET). The PDF/A must be smaller than 100MB.
Note: most faculty have an earlier deadline for the work to be submitted to them so they can review and sign the document. The school-wide deadline is when the book is due to Academic Affairs on Moodle. If faculty have an earlier deadline for their class, students should always follow the faculty's deadline.
Final Document Archive
The BAC library archives all final documents and catalogs them as part of the BAC's collection. Students can use the BAC catalog to find final documents from previous semesters; to learn more about searching the catalog for final documents, click here. Information about final documents are indexed by search engines like Google after the book is loaded into DSpace, the database the library uses for final documents. All final documents in DSpace can be accessed via a persistent URL (also called a handle) which will not change.