MABIO5910 Master's Thesis Course description

The master's thesis is an independent research work conducted under supervision.

The students are offered research topics that can be related to either research projects at OsloMet or external Norwegian and foreign institutions with which the university has signed agreements. In special cases, the topic may stem from the student’s own idea for a research project.

Students choose their master’s thesis topic based on their academic background and interests. Relevant project outlines are made available digitally.

Students must have passed all their exams for the first year before they can be given access to laboratories and academic supervision to work on their master's thesis. The course is not offered as an individual course.

Emnet omfatter det biologiske grunnlaget for, og effekter av, medisinsk strålebruk. Hovedvekten er på ioniserende stråling, men også effekter og bruk av optisk og infrarød stråling er inkludert. Med utgangspunkt i biologiske effekter, faktorer som innvirker på strålefølsomheten samt anvendelse av stråling innenfor biomedisin vil det også fokuseres på de etiske utfordringer for individ og samfunn.

Emnet går over ca. seks uker og ligger i siste del av 1. semester og første del av 2. semester.

Emnet er obligatorisk for fordypning i CT.

Projects are presented to students during the first semester of the programme. Students’ own projects must be approved by the person responsible for the course during the first semester.

Academic supervisors are assigned in connection with the allocation of thesis topics. The supervision is intended to ensure satisfactory work progress and quality. The student and supervisor sign a supervision contract that regulates responsibilities and rights, time frames and availability.

Students meet for seminars during the period they are working on the master’s thesis. At the beginning of the second year of the programme, students and supervisors attend a start-up seminar. A few weeks later, another seminar is held to present and discuss the individual project plans. Several sessions dealing with relevant topics are held during the year. The process concludes in a seminar where students present their results.

Detailed guidelines for the master’s thesis will be published online.

The following must have been approved in order for the student to take the exam:;

• a minimum attendance of 80% at seminars
• project outline with a progress schedule in accordance with specified criteria

An individual written master’s thesis and an individual oral exam including a presentation of the thesis, up to 1.5 hours. The master’s thesis can be written as a monograph of up to 80 pages or an article manuscript with a supplementary introductory chapter of up to 45 pages.

The written thesis must be awarded a grade of A-E (preliminary grade) in order for a student to take the oral exam. The final grade is set after the oral exam. The grade can be adjusted up or down by one grade based on the oral exam.

Theses are written in Norwegian or English. The oral exam can be taken in Norwegian or English, regardless of which language the thesis was written in.

Resit exam: If the master’s thesis is awarded the grade F (fail), the student will be given one (1) opportunity to submit a reworked version.

Students can appeal against the grade set for the written part of the exam. If the grade is changed after an appeal against the grade, and the oral exam has already been held, the oral exam must be retaken.

Følgende arbeidskrav må være godkjent for å fremstille seg til eksamen:

• Tilstedeværelse på tre seminarer.
• Presentasjon av tre seminaroppgaver, individuelt eller i gruppe på minimum to og maksimum tre studenter.

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All the exams are assessed by an external and an internal examiner.