KEMS901 Maturity Exam for Master's Degree (0 cr)
Description
The maturity exam is a demonstration of a student’s familiarity with the subject matter of the thesis written for the degree, as well as of mastery of academic writing conventions. At the same time, students who have completed their school education in Finnish or Swedish demonstrate their excellent language skills in the language of their school education, if they haven't already demonstrated their language proficiency in the maturity exam for a bachelor's degree.
As a rule, the maturity exam is written in the language of the degree programme. In English-medium programmes, the maturity exam is usually written in English. Usually the abstract of the master's thesis written in the language of the degree programme is accepted as a maturity exam and is evaluated by the representative of the discipline both in terms of content and language. An exception are students who have completed their school education in Finnish or Swedish but have not demonstrated their skills in the aforementioned languages through the maturity exam of their bachelor’s degree. In this case, the maturity exam is written in the language of school education and taken as an exam. The content of the maturity exam is evaluated by a representative of the discipline and its language quality by a language specialist approved by the Centre for Multilingual Academic Communication (Movi).
Learning outcomes
- demonstrates familiarity with the subject of the thesis,
- mastery of academic writing conventions and
- (if needed) proficiency in Finnish or Swedish.
Additional information
More instructions Maturity exam | University of Jyväskylä (jyu.fi). More detailed guidelines for an abstract in chemistry can be found in Instructions for writing a scientific thesis.
Description of prerequisites
Writing Master's Thesis simultaneously