Thesis

To complete your Bachelor’s or Master’s degree, you have to write a thesis. We recommend the following procedure:

• Approx. 6 weeks before your intended start date, ask various professors for available topics or contact the appropriate chair with your desired topic.

• Meet with your chosen supervisors about 3 to 4 weeks before the start date and discuss what both sides have in mind for the work. Afterwards, your supervisors should write a task description and prepare the registration of the thesis at the study office. You will then need to sign this.

• Tips for getting started from a fellow student can be found at https://github.com/hutchison/bachelorarbeit-faq (German).

• You can find the detailed requirements for the assignment in the programme-specific examination and study regulations and in the framework examination regulations, which you can download at https://pruefung.uni-rostock.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&publishContainer=abstgvDetail&posstgid=799.

• Create a plan that shows the tasks for each of the 20 weeks (literature research, concept, implementation, etc.).

• Save and organise your sources during the research, not afterwards.

• Pay attention to conscientious scientific work (https://www.time.rwth-aachen.de/cms/TIME/Die-Research-Area/Marketing-MAR-/MAR-Meldungen/~eslz/TIME-Richtlinien-fuer-wissenschaftliches/lidx/1/) and citation (https://mediatum.ub.tum.de/doc/1236069/1236069.pdf).

• Meet regularly with your supervisors (ideally every 1-2 weeks). They will monitor your progress (milestones) and make sure you don’t go astray. ;)

• Allow enough time for proofreading and printing.