EN-500 Master's Thesis (Autumn 2024–Spring 2025)
- ECTS Credits:
- 60
- Responsible department:
- Faculty of Humanities and Education
- Course Leader:
- Allison Louise Wetterlin
- Lecture Semester:
- Autumn
- Teaching language:
- English
- Duration:
- 1 year
Table of contents
The course is connected to the following study programs
Teaching language
Prerequisites
Learning outcomes
Knowledge: Upon successful completion of the master's thesis, students have
- detailed insight into scholarly literary or linguistic research methods, relevant literary or linguistic theory, and thorough knowledge of the field of research related to the master's thesis
- specialized knowledge of the topic of the master's thesis
Skills: Upon successful completion of the master's thesis students are able to
- work independently with academic issues
- apply problem-oriented, methodological and theoretically mature approaches to the research
- compose academic texts using the conventions of the appropriate academic field
- critically evaluate arguments and assess the relevance and criteria of quality.
- engage productively in academic discussions
General competence: Upon successful completion of the master's thesis, students can
- communicate the nature of the research project and its findings to others in a clear, concise academic style
Contents
The master's thesis is approx. 30.000 words in length and is based on independent research and writing on a topic either dealing with English literature or linguistics. The project is to be an analytical investigation of a literary or linguistic topic, involving a critical assessment of relevant sources. Students may choose an experimental linguistic topic, involving the collection and interpretation of a novel dataset. We encourage thesis topics that are related to one of the courses in the master's programme or research areas of the teaching staff.
Students starting the master's programme autumn 2024: EN-500 spans over three semesters starting in the second half of semester 2. In addition to two 10 credit courses, students attend a writing seminar. The aim of the writing seminar is to help students find their topics, and relevant literature, culminating in an abstract and literature list on their project. In semester 3, students take one 10 credit course alongside EN-500. Semester 4 is solely dedicated to EN-500 and finishing up the master's thesis.
Teaching and learning methods
There are compulsory individual tutorials (approximately 15 hours) and an obligatory poster session in the autumn. In addition, there is a feedback seminar in the spring. Estimated workload: Approximately 1620 hours.
Students starting the master's programme autumn 2024: Individual tutorials, writing seminar (semester 2), poster session (semester 3) and feedback seminar (semester 4). Estimated workload: 1620 hours.
Examination requirements
Compulsory individual tutorials (approximately 15 hours) and participation in the poster session. Formal supervision of the thesis starts after a project description has been handed in and approved of. All courses must be successfully completed before final submission of the master's thesis for assessment.
Students starting the master's programme autumn 2024: Individual tutorials, participation in the writing seminar (semester 2) which includes the completion of an obligatory project abstract and participation in the poster session (semester 3). Formal supervision of the thesis starts after a project description has been handed in and approved of (semester 2). All courses must be successfully completed before final submission of the master's thesis for assessment.