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ERGOB3900 Professional Development and Methods - Bachelor Thesis Course description
- Course name in Norwegian
- Fagutvikling og metode - bacheloroppgaven
- Study programme
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Bachelor's Degree in Occupational Therapy
- Weight
- 20.0 ECTS
- Year of study
- 2025/2026
- Curriculum
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FALL 2025
- Schedule
- Programme description
- Course history
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Introduction
The course consists of the following subject areas, specified below with the number of credits:
- Organic chemistry10 credits
Required preliminary courses
Passed first and second year of the programme or equivalent.
Learning outcomes
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
- has broad knowledge of updated national and international research on the topic of the bachelor’s thesis
- has knowledge of professional development and project work and can use the knowledge in his/her own project
- has knowledge of philosophy of science, research ethics and research methods, and is capable of discussing how this impacts the development of knowledge in occupational therapy
Skills
The student is capable of
- applying problem-solving and creative strategies in the development of a project outline
- developing a research question and a project plan
- using philosophy of science, research ethics and methods to his/her own bachelor’s degree project
- applying a relevant scientific method and conducting data collection and analysis
- preparing an abstract and bachelor’s thesis based on traditions in research dissemination
- obtaining, applying and discussing relevant research articles and other specialist literature from national and international R&D work on the topic of the bachelor thesis
- discussing the bachelor thesis’ topic and results in relation to occupational therapy theory and occupational science
- discussing, assessing and reflecting on results and factors that have influenced the results’ reliability and validity
General competence
The student is capable of
- planning and carrying out an occupational therapy development project in cooperation with others under supervision
- critically reflecting on research ethics issues and guidelines
- communicating in written form, discussing and presenting the results of his/her own project
Teaching and learning methods
Work and teaching methods include independent work, project work in groups, lectures and seminars. The seminars will focus on different scientific methods and approaches.
Project work
Students work independently in groups and receive supervision in relation to the project work and how to write assignments. In part one, the students are to document a project plan through writing a project outline. In part two, the students are to carry out the project and write the bachelor thesis. The supervision is organised on the basis of the projects the students work on, and takes place partly in larger groups with presentations and discussions with peer feedback, and partly in the individual bachelor groups.
Course requirements
In order to be permitted to sit the exam, the following must have been approved:
- application for approval of the topic and an overview of those who will write the assignment
- a written assignment in the form of a project outline for the bachelor thesis, up to 1,500 words. The project description must be written and submitted in groups normally comprising two students.
Assessment
Written bachelor’s thesis in groups normally comprising two students, up to 7,000 words.
Resit exam: If the bachelor’s thesis is awarded a fail grade, the students have the right to submit a reworked version once.
Permitted exam materials and equipment
The course is organised as a series of four sessions over three days.
Grading scale
A-F.
Examiners
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.