Master's Thesis Design (5 cr)
Code: NY00FJ81-3038
General information
Enrolment period
02.12.2022 - 31.12.2023
Timing
01.01.2023 - 31.07.2023
Credits
5 op
Virtual portion
3 op
RDI portion
5 op
Mode of delivery
40 % Contact teaching, 60 % Distance learning
Unit
MD in Social and Health Care Entrepreneurship
Campus
TAMK Main Campus
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Degree programmes
- Master's Degree Programme in Social and Health Care Entrepreneurship
Teachers
- Hannele Laaksonen
- Niina Koskela
- Minna Törnävä
- Taina Peltonen
Person in charge
Minna Törnävä
Groups
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23YSTY
Objectives (course unit)
1. Thesis Planning (gates 1-3), 5 cr
Goals and contents
- being able to select and delimit a topic for a working life based thesis, which supports the student’s own learning, and to write a thesis plan according to TAMK’s thesis instructions
- being able to use national and international sources and adhere to copyrights in planning the thesis,
- being able to choose the proper data collection and analysis methods, to consider the matters regarding data protection as well as the ethical principles of the field in question.
Content (course unit)
Implementation parts
- idea paper, data search, preliminary literature review
- thesis plan
- thesis contract/permission
- peer review
Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1-2) (course unit)
Assessment criteria can be found from TAMK's web pages: https://intra.tuni.fi/en/handbook?page=3104. In the thesis guide there is seperate master's thesis assessment criteria. During the process 'Thesis plan' is assessed as failed/passed. In the end of the thesis process failed/passed is turned to a general rating.
Assessment criteria, good (3-4) (course unit)
Assessment criteria can be found from TAMK's web pages: https://intra.tuni.fi/en/handbook?page=3104. In the thesis guide there is seperate master's thesis assessment criteria. During the process 'Thesis plan' is assessed as failed/passed. In the end of the thesis process failed/passed is turned to a general rating.
Assessment criteria, excellent (5) (course unit)
Assessment criteria can be found from TAMK's web pages: https://intra.tuni.fi/en/handbook?page=3104. In the thesis guide there is seperate master's thesis assessment criteria. During the process 'Thesis plan' is assessed as failed/passed. In the end of the thesis process failed/passed is turned to a general rating.
Assessment scale
Pass/Fail