THESIS (6 SCU)

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, students are expected to be able to: formulate a research question; apply fundamental business management concepts and/or theories to analyze the research question; develop a research framework (model if applicable) and/or design a solution for a business problem; adopt a coherent research design and use appropriate data collection and analysis techniques for the validation of the empirical findings (if applicable); demonstrate the scientific contribution and practical relevance of the research carried out; provide a consistent, well-structured and -argued text of a Bachelor Thesis article; plan and manage their own learning process; and present and defend their results of the Bachelor Thesis course during the students’ Bachelor Thesis Defense.

Topics

Within the framework of the Bachelor Thesis course, students will explore different ways of finding information, defining the scope of a project and doing research, as well as different ways of communicating the results. The Bachelor’s Thesis course includes the stages of defining a topic and formulating a problem statement, selecting and reviewing relevant literature, designing an empirical study as well as performing it, including data collection and analysis, analyzing the empirical data, making theoretical conclusions and finally writing and rewriting a written report called a Bachelor’s Thesis. Students will be supervised at least by one lecturer to write the thesis.

Pre-requisite: None