2025-26 Thesis Process
Thesis Registration for 2025-26 is now closed.
If you have not submitted the form and received an email of your Thesis advisor and blocks for next year, please email Kat Miller-Stevens.
Rising seniors who are declared majors in the Economics and Business Department can use the information below for registering for their two thesis blocks in the 2025-26 academic year.
If you are a declared major in the Economics and Business Dept., and you are writing a thesis in the Economics and Business Dept. in 2025-26, you will need to fill out the Thesis Registration form. The form deadline is April 11th, 2025 at midnight.
If you want to work with a specific professor as your Thesis Advisor, contact them to indicate your interest. Check out this list of Faculty Thesis Advisor Areas of Interest and Research. Pro tip: check the blocks that your preferred professor is taking thesis students.
2025-26 Course Schedules: The course schedules below are included here as tools to help rising seniors in planning next year's schedule - and to help in the completion of the 2025-26 Thesis Registration form, above.
- Econ & Bus Course Schedule 2025-26 (subject to change)
- Math Course Schedule 2025-26 (subject to change)
- Political Science Course Schedule 2025-26 (subject to change)
Important things of note:
- Thesis is a 2-block class, that is supervised by a faculty thesis advisor during blocks 1-6.
- Students must meet the prerequisites for thesis prior to the start of the first thesis block.
- During preregistration, you will enter "GS391" in both thesis blocks you are assigned.
- Full-time faculty (except those on sabbatical) in the Economics and Business Department will supervise thesis students.
How to change your Thesis Blocks after you have registered:
- Email your Thesis Advisor to check that changing your Blocks is ok with them. Your Thesis Advisor may not be advising for thesis every block 1 through 6.
- If you get a confirmation that the schedule change works for them, forward that email to Nancy Heinecke.
- Follow her instructions from there.
Thesis Agreement
Your thesis is due on the last day of your 2nd thesis block by 2:00 pm. Due dates are detailed in the Thesis Agreement.
Submission
Economics & Business Department theses are turned in via online submission through Digital CC Thesis Submission. Login using your normal CC single-sign-on credentials and complete the entry fields to submit your thesis.
After clicking Submit, you and your advisor will each receive an automated email confirming submission. Within a week your thesis will be approved and published to digitalCC and you'll receive another email with the record link.
For information and tips on submitting your thesis, visit this page Tutt Library Research Guides: Thesis Submission Information. Contact Rebecca Floyd (rfloyd@coloradocollege.edu, (719) 389-6875) with questions.
Presentation
Each year the Economics & Business Department holds its annual Spring Research Symposium on the first Friday of Block 8, as an opportunity for all students who have created research during the academic year to present their research.
Many thesis students are required to present their thesis for a grade and many faculty thesis advisors will expect that presentation to occur at the Symposium.
Looking for presentation tips? Check out this video from Professor Dan Johnson!