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MABU5900 Master Thesis Course description

Course name in Norwegian
Masteroppgave
Study programme
Master's Programme in Health Sciences - specialisation in Physiotherapy for Children and Adolescents
Weight
50.0 ECTS
Year of study
2025/2026
Curriculum
SPRING 2026
Schedule
Course history

Introduction

After completing the course, the student is expected to have achieved the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills, and general competence:

Knowledge

The student

  • can discuss the nurse’s role and responsibilities in a chosen area of specialisation
  • can summarise relevant research and professional development in the chosen specialisation

Skills

The student

  • can create a project description, including a time schedule and how he/she intends to complete the bachelor’s thesis with the resources available
  • can formulate a clear research question relating to nursing, which is possible to answer within the framework of the thesis
  • can carry out an independent systematic literature review in accordance with the applicable research standards
  • can clarify concepts, analysing and assessing different sources of information, and using these sources to formulate relevant argumentation
  • can present specialist literature in an independent, logical, critical and systematic manner

General competence

The student i

  • can disseminate and arguing for strengths and weaknesses of his/her own study in a substantial and methodical manner
  • can reflect on relevant research ethics issues

Required preliminary courses

Lectures, seminars, supervision, and self-study. All students will be allocated a supervisor.

Learning outcomes

The following coursework requirement must have been approved in order for the student to take the examination:

  • Project description for the bachelor’s thesis, scope 1,000 words (+/- 10%).
  • Completed supervision, three compulsory supervision sessions out of the four sessions offered.

Teaching and learning methods

Bachelor’s thesis.

  • Literature review.
  • Normally written in group with 2-3 students.
  • Scope of 8,000 words (+/- 10%).

Resits/rescheduled exam: If the bachelor’s thesis is awarded a fail grade, the student has the right to submit a reworked version once.

Course requirements

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

Assessment

Grade scale A-F.

Permitted exam materials and equipment

One internal and one external examiner.

Grading scale

SYKK3900, SYKP3900, SYKD3900 and SKOMP3910 are fully overlapping.

Examiners

All examinations are assessed by an internal and an external examiner. The student's supervisor cannot be an examiner for the master's thesis.