Thesis – with focus on Liberal Arts and Social Science, 15 credits

Main field of study

Course level

Advancement level

Course offered for

• Master´s Programme in Outdoor Environmental Education and Outdoor Life

Entry requirements

Intended learning outcomes

After completion of the course students should give evidence of:
• deeper knowledge of how to analyze and problematise different phenomena in the field of outdoor education
• ability to produce a scholarly thesis with well developed skills
• good proficiency in reading and critically examining scholarly texts and methods of research.

Course content

The thesis can be subject specific, subject integrated or interdisciplinary in its thematic approach. During the course the students should compose a thesis in which both the field-based practical knowledge about natural and outdoor environments and their different effects, and the theoretical knowledge acquired during the programme, are treated in depth. Together these form the basis for the thesis. The student will proceed from a field-based activity and an authentic natural and outdoor environment, an area or a subject and delimit it in consultation with his or her tutor. The student will define, research and explicate his or her work in the light of different concepts of learning which are linked with the outdoor educational and outdoor didactic field.

Teaching and working methods

Instruction consists of fieldwork in outdoor environments, lectures, literature study, seminars and study visits. The thesis is an individual product with a clearly scientific, theoretical and methodological approach, which treats problems connected with teacher competence and learning contexts.

Examination

The student will present and defend the thesis at a seminar, critically comment on a fellow student’s thesis and participate actively as a listener at a further seminar.

Grades

Other information

Planning and implementation of a course must take its starting point in the wording of the syllabus. The course evaluation included in each course must therefore take up the question how well the course agrees with the syllabus. The course is carried out in such a way that both men's and women's experience and knowledge is made visible and developed.

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