Universität Wien

290279 SE Preparatory Seminar for Bachelor Paper in Physical Geography and Geoecology (2023W)

1.00 ECTS (1.00 SWS), SPL 29 - Geographie
Continuous assessment of course work

In dem Semester in dem Sie die Bachelorarbeit schreiben wollen, müssen Sie sich verpflichtend zu einem Seminar zur Bachelorarbeit anmelden und an diesem auch teilnehmen.
Moodle

Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 30 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

The arrangement of the topics (if not already done before) takes place in the first session. For this purpose all students have to decide in which thematic and methodological direction the bachelor thesis should be written (physical geography or geoecology). This means that the first session on 10.10.2023 will take place together for all students.

After that there will be separate sessions for Physical Geography and Geoecology; students do not have to attend sessions of both groups. The dates of the Physical Geography sessions can be found here, the dates of the Geoecology sessions will be announced via Moodle.

  • Tuesday 10.10. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 5A Geographie NIG 5.OG A0518
  • Tuesday 31.10. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 5A Geographie NIG 5.OG A0518
  • Tuesday 14.11. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 5A Geographie NIG 5.OG A0518
  • Tuesday 28.11. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 5A Geographie NIG 5.OG A0518
  • Tuesday 12.12. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 5A Geographie NIG 5.OG A0518
  • Tuesday 09.01. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 5A Geographie NIG 5.OG A0518
  • Tuesday 23.01. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal 5A Geographie NIG 5.OG A0518

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

In this course, students can choose topics relevant to the respective Bachelor thesis, if they have not yet done so. The topics will be discussed in the first session. For this session, students have to think about their own topic for the Bachelor thesis. The relevant content will then be decided and each student has to give an oral presentation of the topic. Herein it is most important, that an updated literature review of the topic is presented and that the student determines the relevance of this literature for the own Bachelor thesis.
The overall aim of this course is thus to define the own Bachelor thesis topic, if still necessary, and to exercise the methodology of analysis.

Assessment and permitted materials

The evaluation of this course includes the oral presentation (60% - 12 points), the active participation (30% - 6 points) and the oral review of a presentation of a colleague (10% - 2 points).
Furthermore, please upload your Bachelor thesis via Turnitin in order to do a plagiiarism check.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Minimum requirements:
• Attendance at 80% of the meetings (including the 1. meeting)
• Presenting your concept and discuss it in the plenary
• Review of a colleague's presentation
• Reaching at least 50% (at least 10 points) of the maximum of 20 points.

Assessment criteria:
17.5 - 20 points: 1
15 - <17.5 points: 2
12.5 - <15 points: 3
10 - <12.5 points: 4
<10 points: 5

Examination topics

Presentation, active participation and oral review

Reading list

Scientific articles on the respective presentation topics.

Ahrens, V. (2014). Abschlussarbeiten richtig gliedern. UTB.
Skern, T. (2011). Writing Scientific English. UTB.
Baade, J., Gertel, H. & Schlottmann, A. (2021). Wissenschaftlich arbeiten. Ein Leitfaden für Studierende der Geographie. Bern. https://ubdata.univie.ac.at/AC16165112

Association in the course directory

(BA GG 6.2) (BA UF GW 21a)

Last modified: Mo 18.09.2023 15:48