WELCOME!
MASTER’S THESIS
INFORMATION MEETING
Nanna Radmer
Student Counsellor for
Business Communication & IT and Economics & Business administration
PROGRAMME
16.15 – 16.35 Rules and deadlines
by Nanna Radmer, student counsellor
16.35 – 17.35 Writing your thesis: Process and problems
by Anne Ellerup Nielsen, academic coordinator
All students will be automatically registered for their Master thesis 1 February (Unless a student have other special circumstances).
It is not possible to cancel the registration.
4 months to write your thesis – from 1 February to 1 June.
THE PROCESS OF THE THESIS - ALL
After submitting your thesis – up to 6 weeks for evaluation and oral defence.
Three attempts at passing the thesis:
• If you fail: Modified thesis synopsis and a new deadline of three months begins after the date of your oral defence.
• If you fail to submit: Modified thesis synopsis and a new deadline of three months begins after the initial hand-in deadline.
NB! Modified thesis synopsis has to be handed in within 1 week.
THE PROCESS OF THE THESIS - MACC
SUPERVISION - MACC
Business Communication (BCOM) has a new procedure concerning academic supervisors for Master’s thesis:
• The thesis process starts with you deciding on a Subject area, Methods for data collection, Methods for data analysis and a small project description.
• You should not contact potential supervisors for your thesis.
• A supervisor will be allocated to you based on the type of your project.
Registration must be done via the Master’s thesis registration form before 1 December 2020 You can find the registration form on the study portal.
• Title
• Project description
• Subject areas (choose only one)
• Methods for data collection (Multiple choices possible)
• Methods for data analysis (Multiple choices possible)
• Student(s)
REGISTRATION OF PROJECT - MACC
MACC
MACC
The thesis may be prepared individually or in groups of a maximum of 3 students.
Scope:
• 1 student 190,000 characters including blanks
• 2 students 290,000 characters including blanks
• 3 students 360,000 characters including blanks
• Excl. table of contents, bibliography, abstract, and appendices – but incl. footnotes and internal references
• The abstract must be no longer than 4.400 characters including blanks
• Individual oral exam: 45 min. per student
• Opportunity for oral exam in groups
SCOPE OF THE THESIS – MACC
After submitting your thesis – up to 6 weeks for evaluation and oral defence.
Three attempts at passing the thesis:
• If you fail: Modified thesis problem statement and a new deadline of three months begins after the date of your oral defence.
• If you fail to submit: Modified thesis problem statement and a new deadline of three months begins after the initial hand-in deadline.
NB! Attach a brief account as an appendix explaining how the modified problem statement differs from the problem statement used earlier.
NB! NB! Modified thesis synopsis has to be approved by the supervisor.
THE PROCESS OF THE THESIS – cand. merc.
SUPERVISION – cand. merc.
You should contact a lecturer or researcher within your chosen field of study – ask if they are interested to be your supervisor for the master thesis.
• The supervisor must approve preliminary title and problem statement
You can find a list of supervisors for the different departments on the study portal.
REGISTRATION OF PROJECT – cand. merc.
Registration must be done via the Master’s thesis registration form before 1 December 2020 You can find the registration form on the study portal.
• Title
• Problem statement
• Supervisor
• Student(s)
cand. merc.
cand. merc.
The thesis may be prepared individually or in groups of a maximum of 2 students.
Scope:
• 1 student 132,000 characters including blanks
• 2 students 198,000 characters including blanks
• Excl. front page, summary, list of contents and appendices
• The summary must be no longer than 4.800 characters including blanks
• Opportunity for oral exam in groups
• Individual oral examination: 60 min.
• Group examination: 90 min
SCOPE OF THE THESIS – cand. merc.
OVERVIEW OF THE PROCESS – ALL
Select a topic and formulating a
tentative problem statement.
Allocation of supervisor
Thesis writing &
17 hours supervision
Preparing oral
defense Oral defense
Registration Deadline:
December 1st
Final list posted on Blackboard No later than Christmas 2020
Hand-in Deadline:
June 1st All the month of June Now
Deadline for oral defense is 6 weeks after the thesis is submitted – June 1st
MACC
Upload thesis:
1. WISEflow
2. Theses@bss (AU Library, BSS’ e-archive for digital theses) Submission
• Number of characters
• Number of pages
• State if the project contains confidential material
• State final English AND Danish title (Virksomhedskommunikation)
HOW TO SUBMIT THE THESIS - ALL
Check out the study portal for more information:
Studerende.au.dk à Faculty à Aarhus BSS à
Corporate Communication (MACC) à “Bachelor’s and Master’s thesis” à “Master’s thesis”
Studerende.au.dk à Faculty à Aarhus BSS à Economics and Business administration (Aarhus)à
“Bachelor’s and Master’s thesis” à “Master’s thesis”
READ MORE - ALL Remember • Regardless of what supervisor you get
allocated, the process of writing will remain the same.
• Focus on your third
semester – it might prove
helpful in your thesis.
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Help with Information Seeking for Masters Students
AU Library can offer targeted video support sessions for Master’s thesis students - to provide you with the skills needed to perform your literature searches.
Sessions can take place via Microsoft Teams or Zoom. You must provide some subject keywords. These will form the basis for the information searches we will look at. The more information you provide about your thesis subject the more targeted the session can be. You should also suggest some potential date/time slots that might suit you.
Please request a session by sending an email to Nick Atkinson at npat@kb.dk.
In the subject field write: Information seeking (Masters)
In the body you must also include
