1. The Core Sequence and Your Senior Thesis

2. Wonder Review Literature Specify Question Develop Concepts TheorizeOperationalizeHypothesizeObserveAnalyze Assess and Revise

3. Wonder—become curious about something, pick potential topics Review Literature—learn what others have found out about your potential topics

4. Wonder—continue wondering and narrow down your topic Review Literature—continue to learn what others have found out Specify Question—state exactly what you are going to find out Conceptualize—isolate and define key elements Theorize—state how you believe concepts are related and explain why

5. Review Literature—continue to learn what others have found out Operationalize—specify your measures and develop the instruments and procedures you will use to obtain them Hypothesize—state exactly how you expect your measures to be related Observe—measure your concepts

6. Review Literature—continue to learn what others have found out Analyze—systematically compare how your measures are really related to how you predicted they would be related Assess and Revise—reject or adjust theory if predictions fail

7. Wonder Review Literature Specify Question Develop Concepts TheorizeOperationalizeHypothesizeObserveAnalyze Assess and Revise