MABIO5910 Master's Thesis Course description

Knowledge of basic human needs, anatomy, physiology and motor skill development is crucial to health professionals. This course also covers cytology, microbiology, genetics and neuroanatomy.

Social educators need basic skills in observing and talking to children and young people to understand their life and how work with children can be carried out in interprofessional person- and family-centred care. This topic is highlighted in the interdisciplinary teaching activity INTER1100 The Same Child - Different Arenas, scope corresponding to 1.5 credits. INTER1100 addresses the learning outcomes marked with an asterisk (*) and written in italics.

The course is taught over a total of seven weeks, including Interact.

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.

On successful completion of the course, the student has the following learning outcomes classified as knowledge, skills and general competence:

Knowledge

The student

• can describe the structure and function of the body
• can explain basic human needs
• can describe the most important principles of hygiene
• can present important aspects of microbiology
• can describe the structure and functioning of the cell
• can describe the structure and physiology of different organ systems with a particular focus on neurology
• can describe normal motor skill development and factors that can affect this development
• can describe normal sensory development and functioning, and factors that can affect this development
• has a general understanding of childhood and of the processes associated with growing up in a society characterised by social and cultural diversity*

Skills

The student

• can explore girls' and boys' everyday life and their subjective understanding of it*

General competence

The student

• has an emerging understanding of interprofessional cooperation with children, young people and their families*

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 required coursework must be approved before the student can take the exam:

• Group work in groups of six students with:

  • submission of written assignments totalling up to 1,000 words
  • minimum attendance of 80%
• One multiple-choice test;with a minimum of 80% correct answers by the given deadline
• required coursework as described under INTER 1100

https://www.oslomet.no/forskning/forskningsprosjekter/interact

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.

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

Grade scale A-F;

An external programme supervisor contributes to the preparation of the question papers and assessment criteria. Each answer paper is quality assured by an internal examiner and automatically assessed.