Social Work · Boston College
Individualized writing project for doctoral students to develop an Area Statement under faculty supervision, enabling the student to demonstrate mastery of knowledge in a research area. Mastery is demonstrated by the integration, synthesis, and application of research, theory, policy, and practice. The Area Statement should help students develop their dissertation research questions. The Area Statement process requires: (1) a proposal, (2) a written paper, and (3) an oral defense of the paper.
