KUMS004 Maturity Examination (0 cr)
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Description
Students who have received their school education in Finnish or Swedish demonstrate excellent skills in using the language in which they have been educated.Students need not demonstrate their Finnish or Swedish language skills in the same language executable for the master’s degree if they have already done so in a maturity test for the bachelor’s degree.
A member of staff who teaches the subject assesses the content of the maturity test, while the language aspect is assessed by a linguistic reviser approved by the Centre for Multilingual Academic Communication, Movi. If a student has demonstrated their Finnish or Swedish language skills in a maturity test for their bachelor’s degree, both the content and language of the student’s written maturity test may be assessed by a member of staff who teaches the subject.
Students writing the maturity test in a language in which they did not receive their school education or which is not their mother tongue are assessed on their knowledge of the thesis topic and academic writing style.
Maturity test when the student has not demonstrated their language skills in the maturity test taken as part of a bachelor’s degree completed in the same language: essay-style reflective specialist text written under examination conditions.
Maturity test when the student has not demonstrated their language skills in the maturity test taken as part of a bachelor’s degree completed in the same language: the abstract of the master’s thesis serves as the maturity test for the master’s thesis.
Learning outcomes
The maturity examination
Demonstrates the student’s knowledge of the subject of the thesis, and
demonstrates the student’s knowledge of Finnish or Swedish.