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Bachelor's Thesis (15 cr)

Code: ZZOA0120-3020

General information


Enrollment

02.11.2020 - 23.06.2021

Timing

01.08.2020 - 31.07.2021

Number of ECTS credits allocated

15 op

Mode of delivery

Face-to-face

Unit

School of Health and Social Studies

Teaching languages

  • Finnish

Seats

0 - 200

Degree programmes

  • Degree Programme in Nursing

Teachers

  • Pirkko Ratinen
  • Hannu Piispanen
  • Taina Sten
  • Janne Alenius
  • Anne Kovanen
  • Tiina Oksanen
  • Riina Sahlman
  • Sinikka Holma
  • Heidi Pasonen
  • Salla Grommi
  • Tiina Blek
  • Irmeli Matilainen
  • Eija Kuisma
  • Leena Rasa
  • Kaisu Paalanen
  • Leena Suonpää-Lehtonen

Teacher in charge

Sirpa Tuomi

Groups

  • SAR17K1
    Sairaanhoitaja
  • SAR19SMR1
    Sairaanhoitaja R1
  • SAR17S1
    Sairaanhoitaja
  • SAR17SM
    Sairaanhoitaja
  • SAR18K1
    Sairaanhoitaja
  • SAR18KM
    Sairaanhoitaja
  • SAR18S1
    Sairaanhoitaja
  • SAR18SM
    Sairaanhoitaja
  • SAR19KMR2
    Sairaanhoitaja R2
  • SAR19KMR1
    Sairaanhoitaja R1
  • SAR18SMR
    Sairaanhoitaja R
  • SAR19KM
    Sairaanhoitaja
  • SAR17KM
    Sairaanhoitaja
  • SAR19K1
    Sairaanhoitaja
  • SAR19S1
    Sairaanhoitaja
  • SAR19SM
    Sairaanhoitaja

Objectives

Purpose of the course:
The student prepares a working life oriented thesis as part of their bachelor's degree in which they demonstrate their competence required for expert duties in the field as well as general working life skills.

Course competences
Learning and information management competence
Entrepreneurship, innovation and working community competence
Internationalisation and communications competence
Ethical competence

EUR-ACE accredited degree programmes
Research and information retrieval
Engineering practice
Communication and team-working

Intended learning outcomes:
As a student, you recognise development needs in working life and in your own field. You plan a development assignment or research related to them, which you implement as your thesis. You use reliable and research-based information from different sources in compliance with source criticism and the principles of good scientific practice. In your development assignment or research, you apply your competence in the field as well as your development and research competence. You are able to communicate about your thesis at different stages of the process to different target groups in an illustrative way, both in writing and orally. You act in compliance with the principles of ethical research.

Content

Thesis process and practices (thesis topic proposal, plan, implementation, reporting, publication, open science)
Information seeking and source criticism
Writing the thesis and drawing up a theoretical framework
Thesis assessment

Evaluation scale

0-5

Evaluation criteria, satisfactory (1-2)

The thesis evaluation criteria at levels adequate 1 and satisfactory 2 are described in the thesis evaluation criteria form.

Evaluation criteria, good (3-4)

The thesis evaluation criteria at levels good 3 and very good 4 are described in the thesis evaluation criteria form.

Evaluation criteria, excellent (5)

The thesis evaluation criterion at level excellent 5 is described in the thesis evaluation criteria form.

Prerequisites

Sufficient familiarity with own professional field and mastery of development and research methods.

Further information

Thesis writing (2 cr) is a course offered by the Language Centre that is part of the thesis. The student chooses an implementation suitable for them from the offering. The most suitable time for this is when you have familiarised yourself with the sources and are writing the theory part of the thesis and have 3 to 5 pages of text based on sources ready.