Bachelor Thesis
- Faculty
Faculty of Business Management and Social Sciences
- Version
Version 1 of 13.05.2024.
- Module identifier
22B1838
- Module level
Bachelor
- Language of instruction
English
- ECTS credit points and grading
12.0
- Module frequency
winter and summer term
- Duration
1 semester
- Brief description
The writing of the Bachelor Thesis marks the completion of the student's studies. It integrates the subject-specific and interdisciplinary learning outcomes of the modules of the degree program. Through the content-related examination of the topic, students can demonstrate their scientific and practice-related competencies in an exemplary manner.
- Teaching and learning outcomes
Independent academic work on a topic relevant to practice (Bachelor Thesis), including
- independent organisation and elaboration of the workflow
- regular consultation with the examiners while work on the dissertation is being carried out
- inclusion of topic-related sources and academic rudimentary material from judicial decisions and the literature
- Overall workload
The total workload for the module is 360 hours (see also "ECTS credit points and grading").
- Teaching and learning methods
Lecturer based learning Workload hours Type of teaching Media implementation Concretization 10 Individual coaching Presence - Lecturer independent learning Workload hours Type of teaching Media implementation Concretization 350 Creation of examinations -
- Graded examination
- Final Degree Thesis and Final Oral Examination
- Exam duration and scope
Bachelor thesis: approx. 40-60 pages
Colloquium: in accordance with the general part of the examination regulations
The specific framework conditions and requirements are coordinated between first/second examiners and students.
- Recommended prior knowledge
Successful commencement and beginning of the practical project (Academic Project/Scientifically reflected Practical Project)
- Knowledge Broadening
Students who successfully complete this module
- are able to expand on a broad knowledge and practice-related foundation gained during the study programme.
- have subject and interdisciplinary knowledge and skills in order to bring together theory and practice related to the study programme.
- are able to adopt critical distance so that appropriate results can be pulled from their analyses.
- Knowledge deepening
Students who successfully complete this module
- develop topic-relevant knowledge enabling achievement and discussion of subject-specific detailed results.
- are also able to present and defend subject-specific results in an overall context.
- Knowledge Understanding
Students who successfully complete this module are able to
- apply subject-related and interdisciplinary skills acquired during the study programme.
- assess the results of their project in terms of their practical relevance and
- convert assessments into recommendations and define possibilities for implementation.
- Application and Transfer
Students who successfully complete this module
- are able to utilise instrumental knowledge acquired in the study programme for the achievement of their project results. i.e. they can
- collect and interpret necessary data.
- apply academic methods used within the discipline.
- make hypotheses and examine them in terms of their accuracy.
- Communication and Cooperation
Students who successfully complete this module are able to differentiate, structure and critically assess:
- the applied methods and procedure,
- the overall context,
- the achieved results
- in both written and verbal form, and in some circumstances also in a foreign language.
- Literature
Balzer, Helmut: Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten: Wissenschaft, Quellen, Artefakte, Organisation, Präsentation Brink, Alfred: Anfertigung wissenschaftlicher Arbeiten Disterer, Georg: Studienarbeiten schreiben: Seminar-, Bachelor-, Master- und Diplomarbeiten in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften Franck, Norbert: Fit fürs Studium: erfolgreich reden, lesen, schreiben ders.: Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten – eine praktische Anleitung ders.: Handbuch Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten Grunwald, Klaus: Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten: Grundlagen zu Herangehensweisen, Darstellungsformen und Regeln Huber, Michael: Keine Angst vor schriftlichen Abschlussarbeiten: Grundlagen wissenschaftlicher Arbeitstechnik Karmasin, Matthias: Die Gestaltung wissenschaftlicher Arbeiten: ein Leitfaden für Seminararbeiten, Bachelor-, Master- und Magisterarbeiten, Diplomarbeiten und Dissertationen Lück, Wolfgang: Technik des wissenschaftlichen Arbeitens: Seminararbeit, Diplomarbeit, Dissertation Möllers, Thomas M.J.: Juristische Arbeitstechnik und wissenschaftliches Arbeiten: Klausur, Hausarbeit, Seminararbeit, Studienarbeit, Staatsexamen, Dissertation Nicol, Natascha: Wissenschaftliche Arbeiten schreiben mit Word 2007: formvollendete und normgerechte Examens-, Diplom- und Doktorarbeiten Putzke, Holm: Juristische Arbeiten erfolgreich schreiben: Klausuren, Hausarbeiten, Seminare, Bachelor- und Masterarbeiten Rossig, Wolfram E.: Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten: Leitfaden für Haus- und Seminararbeiten, Bachelor- und Masterthesis, Diplom- und Magisterarbeiten, Dissertationen Scheld, Guido A.: Anleitung zur Anfertigung von Praktikums-, Seminar- und Diplomarbeiten sowie Bachelor- und Masterarbeiten Schomerus, Thomas; Söffker, Christiane; Jelinski, Jörg: Erstellen schriftlicher Arbeiten: Regeln und Hinweise für die Gestaltung von Referat, Hausarbeit, Praxisbericht, Diplomarbeit, Bachelorarbeit Sommer, Roy: Schreibkompetenzen: erfolgreich wissenschaftlich schreiben - Klausuren, Seminararbeiten, Examensarbeiten, Bachelor-/Masterarbeiten Stickel-Wolf, Christine: Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten und Lerntechniken: erfolgreich studieren – gewusst wie Stock, Steffen: Erfolg bei Studienarbeiten, Referaten und Prüfungen Töpfer, Arnim: Erfolgreich forschen: ein Leitfaden für Bachelor-, Master-Studierende und Doktoranden in current edition and literature relevant to the particular project
- Applicability in study programs
- International Management
- International Management, B.A.
- Person responsible for the module
- Frie, Jan
- Teachers
- Frie, Jan