Thesis Requirements

1. Thesis should have minimum length of 20,000 words, including components 1) to 6) provided in 2. and notes, but not appendices.

2. Thesis should include following components:

1) Cover page

2) Table of Contents

3) Thesis summary in Chinese (at least 3,000 Chinese characters)

4) Abstract in English

5) Main text (In-text citation should be consistent throughout the thesis and can be any commonly 

used style including APA, APSA, Chicago, etc.)

6) Bibliography 

7) Acknowledgements

8) Declaration of originality and licensing agreement

Thesis timetable for class of 2022

Deadline
(Tentative dates)

Description
October 29, 2021

Submit the Confirmation of Supervisorship to IGPP.

December 28, 2021

Thesis proposal defense.

Middle March, 2022

Thesis pre-defense.

Early April, 2022

Online submission of thesis for similarity check and blind review.

Submit hardcopies of Application for Master’s Degree.

Late May, 2022

Thesis final defense.

June, 2022

Online submission of final version of electronic thesis to Fudan Library.

Submit three hardcopies of final version of thesis to IGPP.