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2015/2016  BA-BBLCO1218U  Bachelor Project

English Title
Bachelor Project

Course information
Language English
Course ECTS 15 ECTS
Type Mandatory
Level Bachelor
Duration One Semester
Start time of the course Spring
Timetable Course schedule will be posted at calendar.cbs.dk
Study board
Study Board for BSc og MSc in Business, Language and Culture, BSc
Course coordinator
  • Charles Tackney - Department of Intercultural Communication and Management (ICM)
Main academic disciplines
  • Globalization and international business
  • Language
Last updated on 30-10-2015
Learning objectives
To achieve the grade 12, students should meet the following learning objectives with no or only minor mistakes or errors:
  • Define a clear and consistent research issue or question.
  • Specify, explain, and argue for the appropriateness of empirical sources and theories selected for the analysis of the research issue or question.
  • Explain and evaluate the chosen method for the Project.
  • When appropriate, identify and evaluate the variables of interest, and correctly identify their type, scale, and role in the Project.
  • Describe and evaluate the primary and secondary data sources used.
  • Evaluate the impact of their findings for the target organization according to appropriate social science method using selected theories.
Examination
Bachelor Project:
Exam ECTS 15
Examination form Oral exam based on written product

In order to participate in the oral exam, the written product must be handed in before the oral exam; by the set deadline. The grade is based on an overall assessment of the written product and the individual oral performance.
Individual or group exam Group exam, max. 5 students in the group
The examination is an oral group examination based on group project written by 3-5 students. The length of the oral exam is 1 hour if 3 students in the group and 1 and a half hour if 4-5 students in the group. The grade is an overall assessment of the written project and the oral performance.
Size of written product Max. 80 pages
The Project report must stay within the following number of pages: Project length:
• 1 student 40 pages
• 2 students 60 pages
• 3 students 70 pages
• 4 or more students 80 pages
Assignment type Bachelor project
Duration
Written product to be submitted on specified date and time.
30 min. per student, including examiners' discussion of grade, and informing plus explaining the grade
Preparation time No preparation
Grading scale 7-step scale

The student’s spelling and writing skills are taken into consideration in the overall assessment of the examination performance, but the academic content is given the highest weight.
Regulations regarding the summary The executive summary is to be written in English and will count in the overall grade.
Examiner(s) Internal examiner and external examiner
Exam period Summer
Make-up exam/re-exam
Another examination form
If the examination grade is at 00 or below, a substantial Project revision must be undertaken prior to re-submission. To facilitate this, within eight days after the oral examination, the examiners submit a written report on the Project, outlining ways to improve it.

Reexamination when the regular examination is failedby one group member, is a 25 minutes individual oral exam based upon the same project revised according to proposals set by the examiner. Reexamination when ill at the oral exam is a 25 minutes individual oral exam based upon the same project. Reexamination when ill during the writing of the project is a 25 minutes individual oral exam based upon an individual written project.
Description of the exam procedure

The examination is an oral group examination based on group project written by 3-5 students. The length of the oral exam is 1 hour if 3 students in the group and 1 and a half hour if 4-5 students in the group. The Project report is to be of 65-70 standard pages for a group of 3 students and 10 more pages for extra person in the group. The grade is an overall assessment of the written project and the oral performance.

If the examination grade is at 00 or below, a substantial Project revision must be undertaken prior to re-submission. To facilitate this, within eight days after the oral examination, the examiners submit a written report on the Project, outlining ways to improve it.

Reexamination when the regular examination is failedby one group member, is a 30 minutes individual oral exam based upon the same project revised according to proposals set by the examiner. Reexamination when ill at the oral exam is a 30 minutes individual oral exam based upon the same project. Reexamination when ill during the writing of the project is a 30 minutes individual oral exam based upon an individual written project.
Course content and structure

This research project is one of the defining features of the educational experience offered by the Business, Language and Culture (BLC) Programme. Students have an opportunity to explore an issue of particular interest within an interdisciplinary social science, research-oriented, participatory educational framework. The theme of the Third Year BLC Research Project (the bachelor project) is organizations, international or (inter)cultural encounters. Accordingly, the project can deal with both competition and co-operative relations, and the chosen problem can be viewed from a social, company specific or actor-based angle. Nevertheless, the company/ organization must always be at the centre.

 

The Third Year Project must be based on Primary data, with supportive Secondary data. It is also required that the project draws on the business administration courses. It must incorporate an international perspective and be interdisciplinary, integrating insights from at least one of the following courses: Culture and Organisation, Organisation and Corporate Communication, British and American Studies, and French, German or Spanish Studies.
Teaching methods
The Research Project is organized around Project teams,so that students may focus on a topic of mutual interest,refine this topic into a research issue,and work together during the allotted period of time to design,conduct,and present a Research Project.Accordingly,the Research Project study experience involves peer-to-peer learning,Project advisement from a Project Adviser,and the learning experience found in Project Report preparation,submission,presentation and examination.In the Third Year Project,students must arrange for their Project Adviser(the Adviser is not assigned),subject to approval by the Project Coordinator.In this way,the Third Year Project aids educational development by enhancing the reflective understanding and sensibility of students in the proper use of subject material taught in courses or otherwise acquired.The Project ensures these goals,once the student has a specific,well-formulated research issue, because the process leads to the following:
1.Obliges students to work independently(outside the classroom and away from an teacher)in a focused way with selected theories
2.Enables students to experience the limitations of and relations between different scientific disciplines to build up an understanding of the need for an interdisciplinary approach to the study of research issues
3.Encourages students to reflect upon the differences between cultural and societal and upon the problems one encounters when analyzing and interpreting these differences
4.Permits students to demonstrate acquisition of the skills needed to undertake research issue project analysis.In this respect, the research issue's analytical process is shaped by the systematic, professional,and scientific expectations of academic knowledge production
5.Offers students the educational experience of working in groups with people from different cultural,linguistic,and national backgrounds for a common research objective.Individual student projects are also possible.
Expected literature

To be found by students in the groups
Last updated on 30-10-2015