How should the direction of graduate students pursuing a non-thesis option be handled?
This is not included in entry I.B. (Thesis/Dissertation Supervision). It may be included under I.C. (Directed Individual Studies) if the student enrolls for a class under the supervision of the directing faculty member. The guiding principle should be to attempt to evaluate the effort of the supervising individual in terms of contact unit equivalencies. If the effort involved in directing the non-thesis student is equivalent to 0.5 or more contact units, then appropriate credit should be given in the document. If the effort cannot be directly associated with a particular class in which the student is enrolled, entry II.C. (Other Instructional Effort) would normally be most appropriate. If an entry II.C. is used, an appropriate expected outcome should be entered.
