Bachelor's ThesisLaajuus (15 cr)

Objective

The objective of the Bachelor’s Thesis is for the student to demonstrate and develop the ability of applying professional skills and knowledge to a practical development assignment or project relevant to the profession and the working life.

In Metropolia’s Bachelor’s Thesis the student learns and carries out development work, which is based on researched knowledge and other evidence and which concerns the development of professional competences or practices.

On completion of the Bachelor’s Thesis the student will be able to
• identify questions and needs for development in the professional field and the working life and to plan for their solutions
• use reliable and confined information from various sources in the development work
• apply professional skills and knowledge and use appropriate methods for the development task
• execute a development project useful for the working life or the profession in an independent, responsible and collaborative manner
• communicate in different stages of the work both to peers and to other audiences in a clear, well argumented and illustrative manner
• report the results of the work, to assess them and to bring forth proposals for improvement in an appropriate way both in writing and in speech as well as visually.

Content

- Independent working skills
- Ideation, planning work
- Applying theory into practice
- Argumentation, justifying your own ideas
- Methods
- Reflection
- Problem solving
- Writing skills, giving technical presentations
- Maturity test

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

See the Metropolia's Framework for Evaluation of the Final Project (pdf) which is attached to the curriculum.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

See the Metropolia's Framework for Evaluation of the Final Project (pdf) which is attached to the curriculum.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

See the Metropolia's Framework for Evaluation of the Final Project (pdf) which is attached to the curriculum.

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

See the Metropolia's Framework for Evaluation of the Final Project (pdf) which is attached to the curriculum.