Wed 30.3. 10.00-19.00 h
H01
Additional:
18.4. 15.45-19.00 h S06
Wed 11.5. 10.00-17.15 h H01
Wed 29.6.. 10.00-19.00 h H01
Assignment: Presentation (30%), Master Thesis (70%)
Thesis 120 pages plus/minus 25% (= 90-150 pages) corpus
Citation rules FHW:
German: here English:
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 29 "official" presentation of Thesis project (results of Thesis as of July
3), 30-35 min. plus discussion - 20% of mark
d. Face-to-Face discussion, emails, etc. with individual supervisor outside of Master colloquium
Each student which is
writing under my supervision is supposed to write a short expose and to send it per mail to arlt@fh-westkueste.de before
registration 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
(Other supervisor of theses may demand
differently structured paper)
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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 research fields for undecided students:
- Experiences
of Chinese outbound travellers in different countries
around the world
The Customer as Employee – Using HRM instruments in customer relations
- Critical
review of existing statistical data sources for international
tourism arrivals and departures
-
Climate Change, Millennium Goals and long distance air
travel - how to reconcile pro-poor tourism and transport
emissions
-
How can hotels earn money from couchsurfers?
-
Real Estate investment by Non-EU citizens in the EU
and tourism
- Chinese Tourism to Europe - Common pattern and differences in the experience of European NTOs and DMOs with the Chinese tourism source market
- Study Motivation and social background of ITM bachelor
students at FHW
-
Seasonality as an ontological problem
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