The subject of the thesis will be decided in consultation between the student and lecturer and brought to the knowledge of the department head. The department administration will submit the details to the teaching administration.

A written proposal (see guidelines in Hebrew here)will be submitted prior to writing the thesis. The proposal will be submitted by the end of the first semester of the first year of MA studies.

• The proposal scope and format will be determined in each department separately and/or between the student and supervisor. This is not the complete proposal (such as a research proposal for a dissertation or research foundation). However, it must define the subject, goals and scope of the study. Beyond the didactic value of preparing this proposal, it serves as a binding contract or protocol that will govern the relationship between the student and supervisor, detail the requirements of the student, and serve as a consensual basis for mediation should any disagreement occur.
• The research program will be signed by the student, the supervisor, and the department head. One copy will be kept by the faculty administration and another in the student’s file in the department administration.
• The faculty administration will not receive any theses for which such a preliminary proposal has not been submitted. In any case, so long as a signed program has not been submitted to the faculty administration, the student will be considered as not having yet begun working on the thesis.
• The thesis document (including notes and bibliography) will include 40-80 double-space pages. Graphs, images, tables and appendices are excluded from this page count. For a thesis written in English, the maximum length is 50-100 pages. 
• The thesis will be read by the supervisor and another lecturer selected by the Teaching Committee. The committee will select the second reader only after obtaining the supervisor’s written approval, including a detailed opinion and a numerical grade, wherein the supervisor agrees to the review. The department head, in consultation with the supervisor, will submit to the committee, in writing, the names of at least two lecturers who can serve as second readers. The second reader will submit their review of the thesis, including a numerical grade, to the Teaching Committee within two months after having received the thesis.
• When submitting the thesis to the faculty administration, the supervisor will be required to approve it as the final version and to consent to its review (unless an opinion and a grade have already been submitted together with the thesis).
• When planning their submission, the student is responsible for coordinating it with the supervisor, for allocating sufficient time for reviewing the thesis, and for allocating themselves sufficient time to revise the thesis as required.
• The date of submission – for the purpose of calculating the time allocated for review or for any other administrative need – is the date recorded in the administration upon submitting the final version together with the supervisor’s approval.

 

Submitting a Thesis in the Faculty of the Humanities: Procedure 1. The thesis will be submitted to the faculty’s teaching administration in a single printed copy. The first page will include the supervisor’s approval, as follows: “I hereby confirm that this thesis has been written under my supervision, and that the version submitted hereby is final and ready to be submitted to an external reviewer”. This approval will be signed by the supervisor in handwriting. 2. The student will also submit a PDF-format copy to the faculty administration, at humanities@savion.huji.ac.il. 3. At the same time, the supervisor will email their opinion and grade to the teaching administration, together with their suggested reviewers. This suggestion will include a current email address of each suggested reviewer. 4. If one or more of the suggested reviewers is not officially and actively employed as a lecturer at the university (i.e., employed in a different institution, non-tenured lecturer, emeritus, or in a sabbatical or unpaid leave), it will be the supervisor’s responsibility to make sure the suggested reviewer is willing to read the thesis, should they be selected, before suggesting their name as a potential reviewer. 5. The thesis will be considered as having been submitted only after conditions 1-4 have been met. At this point, the student and supervisor will receive an email confirming submission. The date of that email is the date relevant for the student to determine the time required for review and for the university to determine tuition pay and delay fines, etc. 6. The selected reviewer will receive an email with a copy of the thesis in PDF format. For the reviewer, this is the date relevant for determining the time required for review etc. 7. A reviewer unable to complete the review for any reason will notify the teaching administration (and explain the reason) immediately. 8. A reviewer interested in obtaining a hard copy of the thesis will email the administration to that effect and include an update email address (snail mail). The date of the reception (or non-reception) of the hardcopy by the reviewer will not affect the date predetermined for the completion of their review. 9. Had the teaching administration sent the hardcopy – the student will be required to submit an additional hardcopy. 10. Upon completing the review process, electronic copies will be sent to the Mount Scopus Library and to the National Library, catalogued there as part of the digital collections, and made publicly available over the internet. The student will then be able to take the hard copy from the teaching administration. Should they fail to do so within a reasonable time, the hardcopy will be shredded.