BIOB3900 Research and Development in Biomedical Laboratory Science - Bachelor`s Thesis Course description

Pass/fail

Part 1) The midway assessment is made by the practical training supervisor and the contact lecturer at the university. The final assessment is made by the practical training supervisor. The final decision on whether to award a pass or fail grade is made by the university.

Part 2) Written exam is assessed by two internal examiners. An external examiner contributes to the preparation of the question papers and assessment criteria.

5 credits overlap with the course BIO1000 The Foundation and Basis of the Health Professions.

Work and teaching methods include lectures, seminars, peer assessment and bachelor's thesis in groups.

Projects are normally carried out in groups of 3-4 students. The groups will have an academic supervisor when working on the thesis. In addition, the groups will be offered writing supervision at the university of up to eight hours. The writing supervision is to help students to structure their thesis. The students will also assess each other’s texts in the work with the bachelor’s thesis.

Students meet for seminars during the period they are working on the bachelor's thesis. There will be a start-up seminar and differently themed seminars relevant for the completion of the bachelor’s thesis. At the end of the period, the students will meet to present their theses to each other.

Detailed guidelines for the bachelor’s thesis will be published in the learning platform.

In order to be permitted to take the exam, the following must have been approved:

• oral presentation of a bachelor’s project in groups, up to 25 minutes per group

Written bachelor’s thesis in groups normally comprising 3-4 students, up to 9,000 words.

Resit exam: If the bachelor’s thesis is awarded a fail grade, the students have the right to submit a reworked version of the thesis once.

All aids are permitted, as long as the rules for source referencing are complied with.

Grade scale A-F

All answers are assessed by two examiners. An external examiner is used regularly, at a minimum of every third completion of the course. When selecting answers for external evaluation, a minimum of 10 percent of the answers shall be included, with no fewer than 5 answers. The external examiner’s assessment of the selected answers shall benefit all students.

15 credits overlap with the course BIO3900 Bachelor’s Thesis.