Procedure and registration
According to the examination regulations, the bachelor’s thesis should be written in the sixth semester. The final module includes the bachelor's thesis and a colloquium. Colloquiums help you plan your bachelor's thesis, and you attend them during the preparation period. They enable you to discuss your thesis with your teachers and your fellow students and to exchange ideas. You will write your bachelor's thesis on a topic that is associated with one of your advanced modules. You must have completed the corresponding advanced module prior to registering your bachelor's thesis.
Final thesis in the Social Psychology module
In the course of the fall semester preceding the semester the thesis is due to be written in, an e-mail will be sent out to all eligible students. They will be asked whether they would like to write their bachelor's thesis in Social Psychology. If the number of students intending to write their thesis in this particular advanced module exceeds the number of available places, the places will be awarded by lottery.
Final thesis in the General and Specific Sociology, Comparative European Societies, and Methods modules
All students who would like to write their thesis in a different module will receive an e-mail towards the end of the fifth semester and will be asked to indicate the following:
- their preferred advanced module (Comparative European Societies, General and Specific Sociology, or Methods of Empirical Social Research),
- a (broad) topic or an area they would like to focus on in their bachelor's thesis,
- whether they would like their thesis to be in English or German, and
- whether they would like their thesis to be statistical in nature.
Students will be assigned to the different colloquiums according to the topic they stated. However, they are not bound to their decision and can change the topic even after they have been assigned to a colloquium. In the spring semester, colloquiums are offered in each advanced module. After all students have been assigned to their colloquiums, we will send you an e-mail with the details and register you for your colloquium in Portal². Consequently, you do not need to register for a colloquium in Portal² yourself.
Please do not complete the registration form for the spring semester if you intend to postpone your bachelor’s thesis until the fall semester. In the fall semester, you can simply register for the colloquium in Portal² yourself. Only one colloquium will be available at that time; however, you can register for all advanced modules (except for Social Psychology) within this colloquium (parallel groups).
Registration for the bachelor's thesis is done during a colloquium session, where the students fill in the registration forms together. The teachers are responsible for forwarding the forms to Student Services.
The preparation period for your bachelor's thesis varies depending on the examination regulations applicable to you:
Examination regulations 2013: 3 April 2018 – 15 May 2018 (6 weeks acc. to examination regulations)
Examination regulations 2015: 20 March 2018 – 15 May 2018 (8 weeks acc. to examination regulations)
Examination regulations 2017: tbd (12 weeks acc. to examination regulations)
You will receive an e-mail informing you about the exact dates in due time.