22507 - Master's Thesis, incl. Presentation and Symposium Modulübersicht
Module Number: | 22507 - module is no longer offered from SS 2015 |
Module Title: | Master's Thesis, incl. Presentation and Symposium |
Master-Arbeit einschl. Präsentation und Symposium | |
Department: | Faculty 2 - Architecture, Civil Engineering and Urban Planning |
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Language of Teaching / Examination: | English |
Duration: | 1 semester |
Frequency of Offer: | Every summer semester |
Credits: | 30 |
Learning Outcome: | Upon completing a Master’s thesis, the graduates will be capable of independently designing, planning and realising construction assignments in different cultural and economic contexts, as well as developing, communicating or visually presenting architectural and urban concepts or planning processes in international work contexts. The Master’s thesis shall demonstrate that the candidate is capable, within a specified period of time, of critically examining the questions that arise within the programme’s spectrum and applying scientific and/or artistic methods to resolve the tasks that result; it should also show whether the student possesses the necessary abilities to make use of the practice-related technical knowledge and skills required for the scope of architectural tasks within the European cultural sphere, whether s/he possesses the language, presentation and communication skills to adequately convey his/her work to others, and whether s/he has gained the knowledge needed to for the transition to professional practice. The student will defend his/her work results in an auditorium, either alone or in a group. |
Contents: | Instructor: V.Prof. Dr. Ing. Dagmar Jäger Leadership and integration of instructors in the study programme. The candidate developes a topic for the Master’s thesis in coordination with the responsable professors. In the thesis, one of the topics from the eight previous workshops will be selected and dealt with in-depth from both a practical and a theoretical point of view, or one of the superordinate issues developed in the workshops will be dealt with in-depth from both a practical and a theoretical point of view. The topic of the Master’s thesis will be developed earlier in the module Reflection 2. The thesis work may be carried out either in interdisciplinary teams or individually. The public presentation (final examination) and exhibition of the Master’s theses will take place as part of an evaluative symposium attended by all of the university lecturers involved in the theses or programme. The location for the final event will rotate between the countries and partners involved. |
Recommended Prerequisites: | None |
Mandatory Prerequisites: | For permission to undertake a Master's thesis, students must have earned 90 credits in the Architektur.Studium.Generale programme. |
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Teaching Materials and Literature: | Subject-related research on the material shall be conducted independently by the students. |
Module Examination: | Unspecified - Specification from winter semester 2016/17 required! |
Assessment Mode for Module Examination: | Students will have five months to complete and submit their Master’s thesis. Defence of the thesis will take place 2-4 weeks after submission. The Master’s thesis shall consist, to the extent appropriate, of drawings/graphics and models/objects and written descriptions/calculations, as well as texts that are necessary for understanding the thesis. Sequence:
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Evaluation of Module Examination: | Performance Verification – graded |
Limited Number of Participants: | None |
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Remarks: | As part of the final event - presentation, defence and exhibition of the Master’s theses - an accompanying symposium, to which all of the teaching staff from the programme are invited, will take place. The aim of the symposium is to evaluate, both substantively and didactically, the topics dealt with during the year, and to develop new perspectives for the next year’s class. |
Module Components: | Participation in research clusters is mandatory. |
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