M0-EI Planning the Master's Thesis
Course responsible:Elin Kubberød
Campus / Online:Taught campus Ås
Teaching language:Norsk
Course frequency:Annually
Nominal workload:M0-EI and M30-EI make up a total of 750 hours
Teaching and exam period:This course has teaching and evaluation in the Autumn semester. There will be a self-study variant of the course in the spring semester.
About this course
The subject will lead to a research plan for the master's thesis in entrepreneurship and innovation. The master's thesis is an independent and scientific research project in which the students must go in depth on a problem. It is important to get started early on with the processes of finding a writing partner, a topic for the thesis, and possibly a company to work with.
The course covers the following topics: guidelines for writing a master's thesis, formulating a problem, writing a project description, handling research data, privacy and research ethics, and literature, references, citing and plagiarism. Together, this should provide a good basis for planning a master's thesis in line with research ethical norms.
After submitting a preliminary topic and problem in the middle of the semester, everyone will be assigned a supervisor for the master's thesis.
Learning outcome
By completion you will have the following knowledge, skills and general competence.
Knowledge:
- You will have knowledge of guidelines for writing master's theses at NMBU.
- You will have basic knowledge of research design for a master's in entrepreneurship and innovation
- You will have knowledge of handling research data, privacy and research ethics, and references, citing and plagiarism.
Skills:
- You will be able to write a research plan for an investigative work.
- You will be able to find relevant scientific articles and motivate a current issue
General competence:
- You will be able to identify themes and problem areas within entrepreneurship and innovation
- You will be able to plan a social science investigation within the field.
- M0-EI runs over one semester. In the autumn semester there is a seminar series of 7 seminars, where the Master torg and Kick-off mark the start and end of the course respectively. For those who plan to write a master's thesis in the autumn and have not taken all of the course, in the spring semester there will be a self-study variant of the course and it is expected that you make use of the writing offers and literature and reference courses that already exist at NMBU, under the auspices of the library and writing center. The master's thesis must mainly be written by two students jointly. To write alone, you must get approval from the course supervisor. The research plan for the master's thesis to be submitted in this subject must also be mainly written by the same two students jointly.
- There is compulsory attendance at the master's square, literature course and the kick-off seminar where the students give a presentation of their plan for the master's thesis. For exchange students, the presentation can be delivered as a 5-minute Zoom film. In the last half of the semester, it is recommended to have one or two start-up meetings with the assigned supervisor.
- The course is reserved for students who have been admitted to the School of Economics at NMBU's master's program in entrepreneurship and innovation or specialization in M-ØA entrepreneurship and business development, and who have completed several of the most important subjects in the master's degree.
Pass/fail based on the research plan.
The research plan is assessed by the student's supervisor.
- The kick-off master's thesis presentation will be censored by the course responsible
Participation in the master torg and kick-off as well as a seminar organized by the library on literature and references. Presentation of a research plan according to given requirements submitted and presented at the master kick-off seminar Carrying out a survey on the topic and issue.
Compulsory activity is only valid for one semester, i.e. if a student wants to take the course again, the compulsory activity must be taken again. There is a requirement that the compulsory activity must be approved in order to present itself for assessment.
Submission of a signed master's contract to the supervisor and study administration at the Norwegian School of Management.
A signed contract between student and supervisor is submitted to the faculty by post-hh@nmbu.no by 1 December for the master's thesis in the spring.
Exceptionally, students can choose to write a master's thesis in the autumn. Then the signed contract between student and supervisor must be submitted to the faculty by post-hh@nmbu.no by 1 May.