MD 699 - Master’s Thesis

Credits: 4 credits
(Summer)

The Media Design master’s thesis includes both written and production components. Successful theses include a literature review and theoretical justification, creative portfolio, the design of a creative work or program scaled for implementation, and evaluation of initial sketch or intervention, as well as a plan to continue work with the partner. By the end of the program, each student thesis is in the form of a creative work or program situated within a theoretical context and an executable research and evaluation plan. Final theses are in the form of design books to be reviewed by a faculty chair and small review committee, which is intended to be part of the responsibility of the Engagement Lab Fellows. An external reviewer for the final thesis may also be included, which would bring in practitioners or scholars from the Boston community, incentivized by small honoraria.