LaTeX UDThesis Styles for Senior Theses

A requirement for the Degree with Distinction and the Honors Degree with Distinction, the senior thesis is the culmination of a year-long major independent research or creative project. It addresses important unanswered questions and makes an original and valuable contribution to the scholarly, scientific, or artistic community. Its format and length depend on the discipline involved. For more information and applications, contact the Undergraduate Research Program. Beginning June 1, 2024, the UDThesis Styles are no longer maintained or updated by IT and are only provided as a self-service with support from Undergraduate Research. 

Undergraduate senior thesis candidates using UDThesis styles should use them in conjunction with the Senior Thesis Handbook.

Note: Make sure you check for the latest names and titles for the signatures in your document. You must change these manually which will likely require you to edit the seniorthesis.clo file after downloaded below to have the correct name and title for the Dean, University Honors Program (Senior Thesis Honors Degree with Distinction) or Chair of the University Committee on Student and Faculty Honors (Senior Thesis Degree with Distinction).

To get started, click to download the LaTeX UDThesis Guidelines.

Note: All LaTeX heading styles are numbered decimally within chapters.

  1. Download the LaTeX common base files, and class and option files:
  2. Download both the main.tex and tap.tex base files for the appropriate degree and copy them into the udthesis-base-files directory or folder:

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