Upon successful completion of the Master's programme:
Knowledge
The graduate
Skills
The graduate
General competence
The graduate
Students are advised to choose a topic for their Master's thesis as early as possible in the second semester.
Students receive supervision for their work on their Master's thesis. A supervision contract outlining the rights and responsibilities of the student is signed by the student, supervisor, and department administration. If a student takes more than two semesters to complete the Master's thesis, supervision will be reduced. Students using a fifth or sixth semester to write their Master's thesis have the right to feedback on a single full and final draft of their thesis if submitted to the supervisor no later than two weeks before the desired final submission deadline.
Work-in-progress seminar As part of the Master's thesis, students hold three approved presentations at the Department's work-in-progress seminars for Master students:
1. a project presentation
2. a draft of a chapter of the Master's thesis,
3. a discussion of another student's chapter draft.
Students are expected to participate actively in their discipline's work-in-progress seminars by presenting their own work and by taking part in discussions about others' presentations. It is especially important that students take part in these seminars the two semesters they spend writing their Master's thesis, but it is also advantageous that they participate in their first and second semester.
Selected topics must be passed before examination. Likewise, all obligatory requirements must be met before examination.
The final examination for the Master degree (i.e. submission of the Master's thesis and subsequent oral examination) can be carried out at the beginning and end of each semester. Deadlines for submission of the master's thesis is 1 February and 15 May in the spring semester, and 1 September and 20 November in the autumn semester.
The Master's thesis is to be written in English, and should comprise 70- 110 pages (the total word count of the thesis must be between 25 000 and 40 000 words.).
The subject for discussion at the oral examination is the student's Master's thesis. Following oral examination, the final grade for the Master's thesis may be adjusted up or down by one on the grading scale.
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