SYKP3900B Bachelor's Thesis Course description

Examination support material is permitted.

The grades pass/fail are used.

Two internal examiners are used. An external programme supervisor is affiliated with the course in accordance with the Guidelines for Appointment and Use of Examiners at HiOA.

The academic content of this course covers key theories and concepts relating to poverty, inequality and power in developing countries and the role of education in social development. The theories are linked to three levels:

a) micro: individual, social relations

b) meso: school and the local community

c) macro: education policy and development in a national and international perspective

At all three levels, emphasis will be placed on the relationship between education and development and comparative issues. The main areas covered are empirical knowledge and theory relating to topics such as cultural complexity, knowledge, learning, inequality, multiculturalism, power and development. These topics are relevant to all the three levels mentioned above, and are important regardless of which area the students decide to specialise in. The relationship between the levels is also important, and all of the levels can be studied on the basis of the different theoretical perspectives mentioned above.

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

Bachelor’s thesis

• Literature review
• Normally written in pairs.
• 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.

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

Grade scale A-F.

One internal and one external examiner.

SYKK3900 and SYKP3900 overlap 100 %.