Master’s thesis

Orientation and tutorship service

Master’s thesis

Guidelines and procedure

14 February 2019

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Provide clarifications to students while taking an «important» decision

Avoid unreal and wrong rumors

Reply to doubts and queries

Aim of the meeting

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What is the Graduate thesis about?

The final exam consists of elaborating a thesis under the supervision of a professor.

The aspects of thesis are:� An accurate description of the chosen theme

� Bibliographic research

� Critical review of relevant literature

� Application of theoretical knowledge and / or techniques of empirical analysis.

The volume of the thesis is roughly 80 pages. It should be presented in lightweight cardboard cover and consist of A4 sheets. Both sides of the sheets should be used. The thesis should be typewritten. Line spacing is 1.5, 2 centimeters of upper and lower margins, 2 centimeters of right margin, and 3 centimeters of left margin. The font must be Times New Roman 12.

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Title page

You can find on the following link https://www.economia.unipd.it/laurearsi-business-administration-economia-e-direzione-aziendale-ba-meda-economia-e-diritto-med, the page which you need to use.

The title page must indicate in sequence:� At the top: The name of the university, reference Department of the

Course, the Department, the reference Department of the supervisor, the name of the master’s degree course.

� In the middle: The title of the thesis � At bottom left: The name of the thesis supervisor and underneath this to

further right, the name of the graduate student and finally academic year on the bottom and at the center.

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5 www.economia.unipd.it -> INTRANET DSEA Accesso alle aree riservate -> Per laurearsi/in order to graduate -> For Graduate students[selectyour Course]: https://www.economia.unipd.it/accesso-alle-aree-riservate

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The list of topics are published on the website (Intranet) of the Department on 15 February.

The number of topics for each professor depends on: his/her teaching activity, his/her employment relationship with the University, his/her Department.

� Be careful: 1 topic DOES NOT NECESSARILY imply only 1 thesis

� Many thesis may correspond to a single topic

� Every professor has different numbers of thesis, depending on his/her academic activities and the conditions highlighted before (max. 10 thesis each)

Selecting the thesis

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Topics will remain visible (BUT they cannot be selected) until March 1st -> from this date on, topics become “active” and you can select them

� You can select a topic only if you have 80 cfu

What can you do until March 5th?� Read carefully all the topics

� Contact the professors (it is not mandatory!) in order to make a careful choice

Selecting the thesis

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What happens after March 5th?

� The procedure goes on-line, and therefore you can select the topics of your preference.

The selection

� Maximum 3 choices, in order of preference, are possible.

� For every choice, the student must fill a brief form indicating:

� Reasons for choosing the topic

� Career information

Selecting the thesis

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What happens after your choice?The Professor receives an email which communicates to him/her the details of each student who selected his/her topic as his/her first choice.

� In event of: 1)more than one student selecting the same topic; 2)or the professor receiving a number of requests higher than his/her maximum threshold; 3)or the student who selected the topic, if deemed as not having adequate skills to elaborate a thesis, professor makes a choice.

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What happens after March your choice?

The Professor has 15 days in order to:

� Approve the individual request

� Express a motivated rejection

In case your “first choice” Professor rejects your request, by providing a motivation, or the Professor has already approved a number of requests equal to his/her maximum threshold, the same procedure will be activated for your

second (and eventually third) choice.

Selecting the thesis

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Possibilità di tesi abbinata al tirocinio (alternativa alla procedura precedente)

� Tutore didattico di tirocinio = relatore, designato dal Presidente del Corso di Studio.

1. Identificazione del soggetto ospitante e predisposizione di un project work

2. Segnalazione nel project work che si intende collegare l’esperienza di tirocinio alla tesi, indicando alcuni temi come argomenti di tesi

3. Project work e richiesta di abbinamento tesi/tirocinio vengono esaminate e valutate dal Presidente del Corso di Studio

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4. Il Presidente potrà formulare suggerimenti sul project work, approvare/non approvare la proposta di abbinamento; � in caso di NON approvazione della proposta di abbinamento

tesi/tirocinio -> lo studente deve effettuare la procedura precedente;� in caso di approvazione, il Presidente individua il tutore didattico-

relatore;

5. Il tutore didattico – relatore viene informato;

6. Lo studente viene informato ed è tenuto a contattare tempestivamente il relatore per definire l’argomento;

7. Qualora in itinere emergessero elementi tali da rendere il tirocinio non idoneo a consentire la redazione di una tesi di laurea, il relatore informerà lo studente e il Presidente del Corso di Studio. In questo caso, il Presidente potrà procedere all’annullamento dell’abbinamento tesi/tirocinio (e si torna alla procedura di scelta precedente).

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Students in the second year of the Degree courses in BA, EF, EI can enroll in the English academic writing courses

� The enrolment starts from the 18th of February.

The students can enroll in one of the three courses available.

� 30 hours (16 hours in classroom and 14 in e-learning mode)

� maximum of 25 students

� attendance obligatory

Course on English academic writing