Pre-master Arts and Culture Studies - Cultural Economics and Entrepreneurship
Bachelor's thesis
To complete the study programme, students write a Bachelor thesis following on from the Bachelor Thesis Class taken in term 3 and 4. The Bachelor thesis is an important assessment of the student’s ability to independently carry out and document research within Art & Culture Studies . This activity is completed individually and constitutes a separate part of the Teaching and Examination Regulations that is worth 10 EC. The Bachelor Thesis Class lecturer is the supervisor for the Bachelor thesis. The student develops a research proposal in consultation with the supervisor. The proposal is based on the subject and the primary and secondary sources used in the Bachelor Thesis Class. Students have one term in which to write the Bachelor thesis. Based on the agreements in the study manual for the Bachelor Thesis Class, students will draft a timetable for submitting the various sections of the Bachelor thesis.
Deadline for final version: 10 June 2011 (= end of term 4).
Students will hear within one week, i.e. by 17 June 2011 at the latest, whether or not they have passed the thesis. Students who do not pass the final version of the Bachelor thesis (i.e. who receive a mark lower than 5.5) have three weeks (until 8 July 2011) to submit an improved version, after which the supervision period for the Bachelor thesis will end. Students who have not passed or have not received a mark for the thesis by that time will have to write a new thesis in the following academic year.
1 August 2010 is the final deadline for lecturers to inform the Education Office (BOS) of the Bachelor thesis marks.
Submitting the research proposal and thesis via SIN-Online
For the purposes of monitoring plagiarism and saving a digital copy, the research proposal and the draft and final versions of the Bachelor thesis must be submitted via SIN-Online. Art & Culture Studies (KCW) transfer students should use the Cultural Studies (ACW) Bachelor thesis channel for this purpose (subject code CC3000). This channel can be found in the left-hand menu under “My papers”. Once the student has started work on the thesis and the supervisor is known, the names of the student and supervisor will be stated. How the documents must be submitted can be found in the manual. The student also has to submit a hard-copy of the final version of the thesis to the supervisor.
Procedure for assessing the Bachelor thesis
1. On the basis of an overview submitted by the Education Office, the coördinator of the Bachelor's Thesis Class or one of the lecturers of the research lectures draws up an essessment framework, which states the supervisor and second reader and submits this to the Examination Board.
2. Once the supervisor has awarded a passing grade to the Bachelor's thesis, he/she completes the assessment form and submits a hard-copy of the thesis to the co-supervisor.
3. On the basis of the assessment form, the co-supervisor assesses within one week whether the Bachelor's thesis can be awarded a passing grade. Independently of the supervisor, he/she completes his/her own assessment form, including an indicative grade.
4. The co-supervisor informs the supervisor of whether the thesis can be awarded a passing grade and of the indicative grade for the thesis. If the co-supervisor believes that the thesis cannot be awarded a passing grade, or if there is a difference of more than two points between the two grades, the supervisor requests arbitration from the chair of the Examination Board.
5. The supervisor completes a results sheet for the student, including the grade, and submits this to the Education Office. The supervisor sends a final assessment form to the Education Office and the student digitally.
The forms can be viewed here:
- Bachelor thesis assessment form
- Assessment form explanatory notes
- Assessment form supervision
