The dissertation must demonstrate the student's ability to describe correctly the results of a personal, objective and methodical work. The length of the dissertation is not a criteria in evaluating its quality.
Similar to the other forms of learning, the dissertation is an essential component of the programme to which it belongs. Status quaestionis about an issue of the masters, this piece of work is more limited than a dissertation and must be done in one year.
Main themes
The masters dissertation, irrespective of the subject, allows a student to :
- summarise a given scientific topic,
- put a specific issue in context drawing on existing information,
- present the results of the dissertation.
Content and teaching methods
Status quaestionis about an issue of the masters, this piece of work is more limited than a dissertation and must be done in one year.The scientific and bibliographical conventions of dissertation writing must be respected.
Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)
If the supervisor agrees, the end work can become a part of the dissertation for a master in two years.
The student must write his individual final project in one of the two languages in his programme and add a summary in French.