Bachelor's Thesis

Course: Swedish Philology and Translation, English and Third Germanic Language

Structural unit: Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology

Title
Bachelor's Thesis
Code
ННД.14
Module type
Кваліфікаційна робота
Educational cycle
First
Year of study when the component is delivered
2023/2024
Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
8 Semester
Number of ECTS credits allocated
8
Learning outcomes
PLO 2. Process information effectively: collect relevant information from a variety of sources, including professional literature and electronic databases, critically analyze and interpret it, organize, classify and systematize it. PLO 7. Understand the major issues of philology and approaches to solving those using relevant methods and innovative approaches. PLO 16. Know and understand the basic theories and concepts of the chosen philological specialization, be able to apply them in professional activities. PLO 17. Collect, analyze, systematize and interpret the facts of language and speech and use them to solve complex problems and problems in specialized areas of professional activity and/or study. PLO 19. Have the skills to participate in scientific and/or applied research in the field of philology. Complete list of program learning outcomes is available in the profile of the educational program.
Form of study
Full-time form
Prerequisites and co-requisites
Preparing a bachelor's thesis in the Swedish language or literature requires basic skills in processing scientific literature and analysing empirical materials, as well as knowledge of the Swedish language at a level not lower than B1 according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.
Course content
A bachelor's thesis in the Swedish language or literature is an independent written research work, which means studying a specific scientific problem, mandatory independent scientific research and recording its result. Writing the bachelor's thesis means conducting scientific research on a topic chosen by a student. Research topics may cover various linguistic fields (phonetics, grammar, lexicology, stylistics, text linguistics, linguocultural studies), problems of translation from Swedish into Ukrainian, or literary studies. Writing bachelor's thesis means scientific research work which includes the following activities: collecting and processing scientific materials on the research question; collecting empirical linguistic material and its analysis or planning and conducting a scientific experiment; presenting the obtained results in the text of the bachelor's thesis; presenting a bachelor's thesis at the defense. The bachelor's qualification work is performed in Ukrainian (in exceptional cases it may be performed in Swedish), its volume is 40-45 pages of printed text, and the list of works cited should contain at least 40 items.
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
1. Основнi вимоги до пiдготовки та написання навчально-наукових i квалiфiкацiйних робiт (для студентiв-фiлологiв) : Методичнi рекомендацiї. — Київ : Київський нацiональний унiверситет iменi Тараса Шевченка; Iнститут фiлологiї, 2019. — 92 c. 2. Мазур О.В., Подвойська О.В., Радецька С.В. Основи наукових дослiджень / О.В. Мазур, О.В. Подвойська, С.В. Радецька. — Вiнниця : Нова книга, 2013. — 119 с. 3. Корягiн М.В. Основи наукових дослiджень : навч. посiб. / М.В. Корягiн. — К. : Алерта, 2014. — 622 с. 4. Павличко О.О., Материнська О.В., Тимченко Є.П. Мовознавча термiнологiя для германiстiв / О.О. Павличко, О.В. Материнська, Є.П. Тимченко. — К. : Iнтерсервiс, 2020. — 286 с. 5. Så presenterar du din forskning — tips från en mästare [Електронний ресурс]. — Режим доступу : https://www.kth.se/aktuellt/nyheter/sa-presenterar-du-din- forskning-tips-fran-en-mastare-1.863038
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Consultations with a scientific advisor, independent work.
Assessment methods and criteria
Bachelor's thesis review by the scientific advisor, bachelor's thesis general review, bachelor's thesis defense. Assessment criteria for the each form of control are given in the program of the bachelor's qualification work.
Language of instruction
Ukrainian, Swedish

Lecturers

This discipline is taught by the following teachers

Oleksandr Serhiiovych Stasiuk
Department of Germanic Philology and Translation Studies
Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology
Anhelina Viktorivna Husar
Department of Germanic Philology and Translation Studies
Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology
Olha Volodymyrivna Petrenko
Department of Germanic Philology and Translation Studies
Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology
Adam Hasselström
Department of Germanic Philology and Translation Studies
Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology