Organisation and Procedure

Basic information every thesis student should be aware of.

Duration

• BA DM: 4 months
• BA CS: 3 months
• MA DM/CS: 6 months
• A hard deadline boosts productivity

Language (German or English)

• Depends on sources
• Depends on doing a publication afterwards → English

General Procedure

If you have questions or need help with any of the following steps, please first talk to your supervisor.

1. 1. Talk to your supervisor about your ideas
   2. Write an exposé about your thesis and send it to your supervisor
   3. Rework your exposé with the comments of your supervisor
   4. Send the revised exposé to Johannes Schöning
   5. Personal meeting with Johannes and your supervisor about your thesis plan and to get the “good-to-go” for your thesis
   6. Prepare study design in consultation with your supervisor
   7. After more than 70% of the study preparation is ready, second personal meeting with Johannes and your supervisor to get the “good-to-go” for the study
   8. Conduct and analyse your study (if you do one) 
   9. If you do a second study, repeat the last three steps
   10. Register your thesis with Prüfungsamt
   11. write your thesis, get a great mark :-)

Recommended Reading

Rainer’s Hinweise für gelungene Abschlussarbeiten