General description

A Bachelor's thesis and a thesis seminar for major students.

Learning outcomes

Students learn to produce an empirical social-scientific research under the teacher's and the group's guidance. After the seminar, students have an idea of the different stages of a research process and of completing them, and they are able to plan and realise a small empirical study independently. In addition, students become trained in scientific discourse.

Contents

During the autumn semester, each student presents an idea paper (1st period) and a research plan (2nd period). This is where students learn to produce a research plan, i.e. to relate what is being researched and how and to explain why the subject is important. The research plan presents a research problem or a question and describes the material and methods the student intends to use to resolve the issue. After the research plan has been specified, the student independently gathers research material and analyses it (2nd-3rd period). The third period is primarily reserved for individual guidance, and the fourth period for presenting the research results to the group. The presentation will be revised into a Bachelor's thesis based on group discussion and feedback from the teacher.

Further information on prerequisites and recommendations

To be completed simultaneously with the Research Methodology Studies in intermediate studies or after them.
In connection with the seminar, students complete Finnish written communication (3 ECTS) in language studies by having a Finnish teacher evaluate a part of the research plan and give guidance in improving the language of the thesis. In connection with this, students also take a maturity test.
During the seminar, students also complete the general studies module Acquisition of Information in Intermediate Studies (1 ECTS).

Teaching language

Finnish

Evaluation

Numeric 1-5.

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