Thesis Plan (5cr)

Objective

- The student specifies their preliminary thesis plan in terms of its phases, related tasks and schedule.
- The student is able to design a feasible and primarily work-life–oriented research or development project that meets the requirements of the thesis.
- When preparing the plan, the student uses information sources in a diverse and source-critical manner.
- The student is able to select and define the key concepts relevant to the thesis.
- The student participates in supervision according to the practices of the degree programme and makes use of the feedback received in the planning process.
- In the plan, the student takes into account the data protection legislation and the ethical guideline and norms related to the thesis, its implementation and publication.
- In planning research and development activities, the student collaborates with parties connected to the thesis.

Content

Content
Issues to be considered in the thesis plan:
- Purpose and objective of the thesis, and cooperation partners
- Schedule
- Research or development tasks
- Key concepts
- Choice of methods
- Copyright issues
- Data collection and further use of data
- Research permission and ethical pre-assessment when necessary
- Personal data and its processing
- Publicity
- Transfer of results
Thesis agreement
SEAMK’s thesis guidelines

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

Assessment follows the Batchelor’s thesis evaluation criteria defined in SeAMK’s thesis guidelines.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

Assessment follows the Batchelor’s thesis evaluation criteria defined in SeAMK’s thesis guidelines.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

Assessment follows the Batchelor’s thesis evaluation criteria defined in SeAMK’s thesis guidelines.