Course content - Learning outcome - Admission - Prerequisites - Overlapping courses - Teaching - Examination - Evaluation

Course content

The course focuses on some of the main topics a student will need to know about when writing a thesis on academic topics in general and a literary topic in particular:

• methods and practices in writing a thesis in literary studies,
• building a bibliography,
• principles of textual criticism, and
• the ethics of literary research.

Learning outcome

After completing this course you will have:

• learned to examine and evaluate basic prerequisites, ideals and conditions of literary research;
• acquired knowledge of key methods and practices involved in the writing of your master thesis;
• learned how to write a thesis proposal for your master thesis
  project.

Admission

Students at UiO must apply for courses in StudentWeb.

International applicants, if you are not already enrolled as a student at UiO, please see our information about admission requirements and procedures for international applicants.

This course is only for students admitted to the master program Europeiske litteraturstudier or LeP/LaP.

The examination in this course is not available for external candidates. Only students admitted to the course may sit for the examination.

Prerequisites

Formal prerequisite knowledge

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The student must have been accepted into the master's degree program in literary studies. Admission to the course is required.

Recommended previous knowledge

No specific requirements. Normally graduate students in English-language literature will take this course in the same semester as the course "Introduction to Anglo-American Literary Theory," that is to say, in the first or second semester of their master's degree.

Overlapping courses

5 credits overlap with LIT4000 - Litteraturvitenskapelig forskningspraksis.

Teaching

Seminar, two hours per week for seven weeks in the second half of the semester.

Instruction in bibliographical searches is conducted in collaboration with the University Library (UB).

Compulsory attendance at least five of the seven sessions.

Second part of the semester. Teaching starts after ENG4310 is finished.

Access to teaching

A student who has completed compulsory instruction and coursework and has had these approved, is not entitled to repeat that instruction and coursework. A student who has been admitted to a course, but who has not completed compulsory instruction and coursework or had these approved, is entitled to repeat that instruction and coursework, depending on available capacity.

Examination

Portfolio assessment: every student turns in a portfolio (“mappe”) that contains final versions of the three assignments handed in during the course period, plus portfolio assignment no. 4 that includes your thesis proposal (to be completed after the last meeting of the class). The portfolio is graded by the course instructor on a pass/fail basis. All four assignments have to be approved in order to pass the exam.

You must submit your paper in Fronter. Read more about submission procedures.

Examination support material

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Language of examination

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English

Grading scale

Grades are awarded on a pass/fail scale. Read more about the grading system.

The results will be found on the StudentWeb three weeks after the exam is completed.

Explanations and appeals

You may request an explanation of your grades, and you may also appeal against your grades or make a complaint about formal examination errors. Read more about explanations and appeals.

Resit an examination

You can usually resit an exam, but the conditions depend on whether you had a valid reason for absence from the regular exam. Read more about resitting an exam.

Withdrawal from an examination

A term paper or equivalent that is passed may not be resubmitted in revised form.

Special examination arrangements

If you have a disability or a health problem that entails significant inconvenience in an examination situation, you may be considered for special examination arrangements. Mothers who are breastfeeding may apply for extra time to complete the exam.

Evaluation

Feedback from our students is essential to us in our efforts to ensure and further improve the high quality of our programmes and courses. All courses are subject to continuous evaluation. At regular intervals we also ask students on a particular course to participate in a more comprehensive, periodic evaluation of this course.