FYSS9489 Master's Seminar (3 cr)
Study level:
Advanced studies
Grading scale:
Pass - fail
Language:
English, Finnish
Responsible organisation:
Department of Physics
Curriculum periods:
2024-2025, 2025-2026, 2026-2027, 2027-2028
Description
- Mapping of own knowhow
- Physicists job market outside academic research
- PhD studies and academic career
- Project planning
- Peer group working
- Assessment criteria and process in Master’s Thesis
- Preparation of the scientific presentation
Learning outcomes
Student has/is:
- become aware of personal strengths as physicist, learned to verbalize own knowhow, and updated personal portfolio
- mapped career opportunities outside the academic research
- familiarized to application process to PhD studies and start of the academic career
- familiarized to departments and faculty assessment criteria for Master’s Thesis, aware of their rights and obligations throughout the thesis process
- chosen Master Thesis topic, found a supervisor, and drafted a realistic schedule together with the supervisor, including meaningful checkpoints
- set goals for the Master Thesis work and reflected the personal significance of the thesis
- learned to communicate own research
Description of prerequisites
Advanced studies in physics, URAM003 Creating Career -course
Compulsory prerequisites
- Prerequisite group 1
Study materials
Various material in www to support the writing assignments.
Completion methods
Method 1
Description:
Seminar group starts in fall. Group is divided to English and Finnish speaking sub-group.
Evaluation criteria:
Public seminar talk, return of the home assignments, compensating work, if absent from small group meetings.
Time of teaching:
Period 1, Period 2, Period 3, Period 4
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Method 2
Description:
This completion method is possible only if primary method cannot be realized, e.g. living in other town/country. Please contact teachers.
Evaluation criteria:
Home assignments completed, preparing a scientific talk, public presentation at the department.
Select all marked parts
Parts of the completion methods
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Participation in teaching (2 cr)
Type:
Participation in teaching
Grading scale:
Pass - fail
Language:
English, Finnish
Teaching
9/19–11/7/2024 Seminar
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Giving presentation (1 cr)
Type:
Participation in teaching
Grading scale:
Pass - fail
Language:
English, Finnish
Teaching
9/2–9/27/2024 Presentation
11/4–11/29/2024 Presentation
2/3–2/28/2025 Presentation
5/5–5/28/2025 Presentation
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Independent study (2 cr)
Type:
Independent study
Grading scale:
Pass - fail
Language:
English, Finnish