Study Guide

Teaching methods

There are 3 meetings (6 lessons) available to support the start of the student's own thesis process. The sessions are:
1. Kick off/ orientation to thesis process.
2. Academic writing practices - a revision
3. Information retrieval and databases for thesis writers.

To earn the credits, the student partipates the lessons actively, acquiring the information concerning the key things related to the thesis process. The student chooses a topic that is relevant for the development of both the field of study and his/her own expertise, motivates his/her topic choice from various viewpoints, creates a thesis topic description and completes it into a thesis plan (=work plan). The student works flexibly with other people and parties involved in the thesis process and presents his /her knowledge and skills during the 1st phase of the thesis.

Alternative implementation methods

RPL:

Student workload

Lectures 6 h
Communication with the thesis supervisor 5 h
Independent work 124 h
Total: 135 hours

The work load is recommended to be scheduled during September-January if a student plans to finish one's thesis process by the end of May/ before the summer break.

Qualifications

Research methodology studies of the degree programme.

Materials

The student acquires the material required in the thesis process independently.
Savonia Reporting Instructions. The thesis process instructions on Reppu.