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FACULTEIT DER GEESTESWETENSCHAPPEN Mediastudies

THESIS REGULATIONS MEDIA STUDIES
STIPULATIONS FOR WRITING, SUPERVISING AND EVALUATING

MA - THESES

Department Media Studies 1 February 2012

THESIS REGULATIONS STIPULATIONS FOR WRITING, SUPERVISING AND EVALUATING MA-THESES
General criteria 1. The thesis is the written report of a research project that the student has conducted largely independently but not without a supervisor. It must show, among other things, that the student is capable of: a. studying and evaluating scholarly literature; b. designing a research project; c. conducting research and reporting on it in a scholarly manner; d. demonstrating critical and creative thought and being community-oriented; e. correct formulation. 2. A thesis must contain at least the following elements: a. an original statement of the problem and question/hypothesis; b. a justification of the theoretical framework within which the research project was conducted and an explanation of the methodology used; c. a critical account and evaluation of literature and documentation relevant to the topic; d. an independent contribution by the student to the research or ideas on the subject of the thesis, e.g. applying the literature to new material, giving his or her own, original interpretation, evaluating an issue in the secondary literature, publishing new historical data, or developing a new theoretical idea; e. reasonable conclusions deduced from the original problem (the question/hypothesis); f. a five-hundred word abstract in English; g. references and bibliographical information in accordance with the Media and Culture Author’s Handbook, or the Syllabus for Academic Skills I or the Syllabus for BA Research Work Groups. Another formatting style may be selected in consultation with the supervisor, but should then be applied consistently. 3. The thesis stands for a student workload of 20 ECTS credits; it should, as a rule, consist of no less than 15,000 and no more than

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