After completing your bachelor thesis, you are able to:
- Design and execute research in the field of arts and culture studies;
- Formulate a research question that relates to a topic from the areas of expertise of the staff of the department;
- Collect and select relevant academic sources and effectively use insights from those sources in your own research;
- Execute your research in a systematic and methodologically sound fashion;
- Present the results of your research in a clearly and logically structured report, which meets the stylistic, structural and substantive criteria as set forth in the departmental style guide as well as those for academic accountability.
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You will complete your BA Arts and Culture Studies with a thesis of 10 ects. By writing the thesis you prove you have achieved the end goals of the bachelor programme. The thesis trajectory has the following structure:
- Students register for the trajectory (in the period preceding the semester in which the thesis is to be written); they will be given access to the Brightspace module for the thesis;
- The ACS Director of Studies will announce on Brightspace for which themes supervision will be available that semester;
- Student will sign up for one of these themes; the Director of Studies will assign supervisors to students on the basis of these preferences;
- The supervisors will schedule a first meeting with their groups of students, who will prepare by reading literature relevant to their theme or topic;
- Students will follow the step-by-step supervision plan and collect the obligatory assignments in a portfolio. These assignments will include:
- A literature review, approved by the supervisor, and a main research question with motivation;
- A thesis chapter, reviewed by a fellow-student, as well as the feedback given to another student’s work;
- A self-evaluation of the writing process.
Students will be supervised in groups and receive feedback from the supervisor and their group mates.
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