Urban75 Home About Offline BrixtonBuzz Contact

Pretentious dissertation/thesis titles -- out yourself here

T

the button

out on the kocker
My MA dissertation: The psychic life of risk
My (uncompleted) PhD: The figure of the stranger in the metaphysics of care and justice

Goldsmiths sociology dept ftw.

:facepalm::oops:
 
imagining humanity at the periphery: SETI and the search for extra terrestrial intelligence from an anthropological perspective
 
Had to do something related to Middle East. Chose to do something about Iranian-US relations in the 80s. My supervisor was a leading expert on Iraqi politics but I wasn't interested in Iraq at that time. Managed to finish it up a week before the (second) Allied Invasion of Iraq. In other words, I had a prime opportunity to become pretty clued-up about Iraq from a leading Iraqi analyst right at a time when knowledge of Iraq was about to become highly lucrative - and I blew it rambling on about Iran. :facepalm:
 
the button said:
My (uncompleted) PhD: The figure of the stranger in the metaphysics of care and justice
Click to expand...

If that was debollocksed, and written (the whole thing, that is) in normal, then IMO it could be pretty interesting. It sounds like it isn't a million miles off what I'm doing.

My MPhil, I think, could've easily won an award for the dullest / most pedestrian Masters title ever. Summat like 'a small-scale qualitative investigation of responses to domestic violence and mental disorder in two urban arrest referral populations.' I didn't quite *get* thesis titles, back then.
 
Santino said:
Sitting in a Galaxy Far, Far Away: The Iconography of Seated Characters in the Star Wars Saga
Click to expand...

Is that serious? ace if it is

my first was: "The significance of symbolism in Byzantine Iconography"

the second was: "The development of christian symbolism in artwork from the byzantine era to the post modern"...... I should have called it "A comparison of christinan symbolism in artwork of the byzantine, renaissance and the surrealist movements" as thats how it ended up in the end.
 
mrs quoad said:
Summat like 'a small-scale qualitative investigation of responses to domestic violence and mental disorder in two urban arrest referral populations.' I didn't quite *get* thesis titles, back then.
Click to expand...

No, you need something like "Pun That's Only Amusing By Academic Standards: Explanation of What The Thesis is Actually About".
 
"Prose by any other Name: interdisciplinary analysis on the onomastic genesis of theses and their impact on reference and request rates"
 
Undergrad dissertation: Travels in the Austerian: Writing and the (Self) Surveillance of Paul Auster.
 
Current (PhD): Trust and risk in seismic engineering. (Notice no ": bladi bladi blah) sub-title)
Previous (MSc): The energy discourse in Britain 1990-2005: Sustainability and resistance as social representations and relational frames. (Before I started hating the x: x x x type titles).

IMVHO any paper that starts with "Towards" or "Beyond" should be automatically failed (if by student) or rejected (if journal submission).
 
M.Res. dissertation: Glyph, Erasure and the Field of Cultural Production.

Tells you very little about the project, but isn't poncy. In other words, I couldn't think of anything and went for bare-bones minutes before I printed it out.
 
I really hate thinking of titles. Hate hate hate.

Currently reworking a piece to submit to a journal entitled: Movement and Struggle in Colson Whitehead's The Intuitionist. I don't mind that title, actually. Does what it says on the tin.
 
Vintage Paw said:
I really hate thinking of titles. Hate hate hate.

Currently reworking a piece to submit to a journal entitled: Movement and Struggle in Colson Whitehead's The Intuitionist. I don't mind that title, actually. Does what it says on the tin.
Click to expand...

Good job, like it.
 
"Synthesis and Computational Studies of an N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligand"

We made just enough to do a mass spec and nmr (which was done wrong:rolleyes: and then sat at the computer for four weeks running simulations and playing Bejewelled
 
BSc - Virus transport through triassic sandstone
MSc - Modelling the economic and technical feasability of renewable energy in UK business parks.

:hmm:
 
Conspiracy Without Intent: Ideological Hegemony and the Criminal Law in Eighteenth Century England.

I also "dedicated" it to my lecturer, as follows: "For Professor XX, who wanted his name kept out of it."

Fucking pretentious but best thing I've ever done (for myself).
 
Oh god, just checked my dissertation title from 6 years ago -

"Porking the Myth: Representations of Sex, Gender and Power Dynamics in 1980's Teen Comedies"

I was such a twat :facepalm:

Turned out to be the only piece of work I did at Uni that got a mark above 70 though :D
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

V
Jobs you could never see yourself doing?
2
Replies
52
Views
2K
WouldBe
WouldBe
tonysingh
MA History dissertation....eeek!
2 3 4 5
Replies
120
Views
4K
A380
A380
fucthest8
Contract Q: clause agreeing to opt out of 48 hour week limit for office job. OK or no?
2 3
Replies
76
Views
2K
moomoo
M
Magnus McGinty
Any Education Reps on here?
Replies
0
Views
249
Magnus McGinty
Magnus McGinty
passenger
Son has been kicked out of University
2 3 4
Replies
93
Views
6K
scifisam
scifisam
Back
Top Bottom