Fr 23.3., 11.5., 22.6. (plus 21.6. or 23.6.)

10.00 - 19.00 h

S 18

Assignment: Presentation (20%), Master Thesis (80%)

Thesis 120 pages plus/minus 25% (= 90-150 pages) corpus

Citation rules FHW: here 

Harvard Referencing: here 

Structure of the seminar:

a. Technical support: Topic, Searching for sources, citation problems, bibliography problems, How to treat your supervisor, crisis management, workscape, soundscape, etc.

b. "Wisdom of the Crowd" Group support: Presentation and discussion of topics, progress of work, crisis management

c. Presentation:

On May 11 "informal" presentation of Thesis project (based on Exposé, including working methods, problems etc.), 15-20 min. plus discussion - no mark

On June 22 "official" presentation of Thesis project (results of Thesis as of June 22), 30-35 min. plus discussion together with first supervisors - 20% of mark

d. Face-to-Face discussion, emails, etc. with individual supervisor outside of Master colloquium

Each participant is supposed to write a short expose and to send it per mail to arlt@fh-westkueste.de) including the following items:

- Planned topic
- Personal interest in topic
- Thesis writing in cooperation with a company/organisation?
- If so, how is the cooperation organized (internship, other)?
- Research question(s)
- Hypothesis/es
- Planned usage of methods
- Planned usage of sources
- Draft of content list
  (including number of pages per main chapter)
- Timetable

Expose should be two to three pages long

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Introduction:

Situation of participants:

  - Current situation with regard to other obligations
    (job, missing courses) 
  - Current situation with regard to thesis
  - Planned timetable

Detailed discussion following structure of expose for each participants project

Technical aspects

Some topics for undecided students:

- The Customer as Employee – Using HRM instruments in customer relations

- Community Based Tourism in East Africa using new IT opportunities

- Chinese Tourism to Europe - Common pattern and differences in the experience of European NTOs and DMOs in with the Chinese tourism source market

- Study Motivation and social background of ITM students at FHW