MAATH5900 Master’s Thesis Course description

Gradert skala A - F.

Det benyttes intern og ekstern sensor til sensurering av besvarelsene.

Et uttrekk på minst 25 % av besvarelsene sensureres av to sensorer. Karakterene på disse samsensurerte besvarelsene skal danne grunnlag for å fastsette nivå på resten av besvarelsene.

Alicja Olkowska og Thale Oberprieler

The thesis is written in a group of two students.

The students are required to draw up a project description with an associated progress plan. All project descriptions must be approved by the course coordinator within the given deadlines.

Each group of students will be assigned a supervisor for the master’s project. The supervisor may be internal or external to the organisation. Up to 25 hours of supervision is normally available per project. The scope will depend on the subject area and working methods concerned. The supervision is intended to ensure satisfactory work progress and quality. After the project description has been approved by the course coordinator, the students, main supervisor and any co-supervisors will enter into an agreement that regulates responsibilities and rights issues, time frames and availability. The thesis must include an appendix that documents each student’s contribution.

Students meet for seminars during the period they are working on the master’s thesis. The seminars give them an opportunity to share experience from their own project work. Students will take part in academic discussion and practise structuring and wording academic reasoning and convey constructive criticism. Presenting their work and receiving feedback from fellow students and teachers are important parts of the seminars. The seminars will be held digitally or through physical attendance on campus.

Detailed guidelines for the master’s thesis will be published on OsloMet’s learning platform.

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

• two oral presentations (up to 30 minutes) at the master’s seminars
• project outline with a progress schedule in accordance with specified criteria

If the seminars are taught in English, presentations must be given in English.

Written master’s thesis in a group of two students, followed by an individual oral exam including a presentation of the thesis, with a duration of 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.

The thesis can be written in English or a Scandinavian language. The oral exam can be taken in English or a Scandinavian language, regardless of which language the thesis was written in.

Resit exam: If the master’s thesis is awarded an F (Fail), the students 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.

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

Grade scale A-F

All theses will be assessed by two examiners, one of whom must be external.

The students supervisor cannot be one of the examiners.