Within this course, students will write their master thesis.
They will have to perform certain tasks like

• submitting a proposal and discussing it with the course instructors
• doing an interim presetation and
• presenting the main findings of their theses to the course instructors and their colleagues.

After completing the course students will be able to:

• define a research question after having identified a specific problem
• independently perform a scientific problem solving process
• adopt quantitative methods to the research question 
• evaluate, to interpret and to discuss relevant datasets 
• give an overview of actual scientific knowledge on the area of research.

Furthermore, after completing the course students will be able to:

• organize and to structure information and their own ideas
• integrate the information obtained before into a coherent approach
• breakdown a global problem into partial steps and milestones and to work on it according to a project schedule
• enhance knowledge and information according to a specific target group.
• gather, to assess and to critically summerize the relevant literature
• get to know basic methods of scientific work and to adopt it on the research question chosen appropriate to the level of a master thesis
  

Full attendance is compulsory, i.e., students should attend at least 75% of all lectures.

• Preliminary discussion (in the fall term)
• Individual meetings with students (fall term; details scheduled to be distributed before)
• Final presentations (at the end of the spring term)

The dates and the individual time slots for the final presentation have been announced in March 2023 via Mail. The presentations will take place from June 19 to 27, 2023 online via MS Teams.

Assessment will be based upon:

• Quality of submitted presentation slides (20%)
• Proposal presentation (40%)
• Final presentation (40%)

The dates and the individual time slots for the final presentation have been announced in March 2023 via Mail. The presentations will take place from June 19 to 27, 2023 online via MS Teams.

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