Individual final project

Language

French

Prerequisites

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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.

Learning outcomes

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :
1	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.

Content

The Individual Final Project must be at least 50 pages.
It should include : Introduction; Development; Conclusion and Bibliography.
It is a piece of writing in the style of a dissertation but presented more as a speech.

Teaching methods

The student should meet his or her promoter at least twice.

Evaluation methods

The degree paper is supervised by a promoter. The student must submit his or her topic for approval to the promoter. The jury for the thesis is composed of the promoter and one other reader, designated by the master's jury.
The promoter's and the reader's marks take into consideration :

• the achievement of its objectives;
• the ability to produce a relevant and well-documented synthesis;
• the personal investment and the ability to discuss the methodological choices;
• the coherence of the work;
• the accuracy, quality and relevance of the writing.

In their final mark, the promoter also takes into account the involvement of the student and the continuity of the work  performed throughout the Master's program in the framework of the thesis (in particular : the timely submission and the quality of the file submitted at the end of the first annual block).
The dissertation reader is responsible for preparing a detailed written report on certain formal aspects of the dissertation :

• spelling;
• the language (precision and mastery of specialized terminology, syntactic correction);
• punctuation;
• the presentation of the text itself, the bibliography, the notes, the references, etc.

For dissertations written in Spanish or Italian, the second reader includes the language evaluation in his/her grade.
This report may lead the jury to revise the grade attributed to the dissertation according to the methods defined in section 2 "Mastery of the standard language" of the dissertation Vademecum ROM (https://myalfresco.uclouvain.be/alfresco/service/ucl/streamDownload/workspace/SpacesStore/18e60fbc-ab6c-426b-9786-b77206423b32/Vad%C3%A9m%C3%A9cum%20m%C3%A9moire%20ROM.pdf?a=true)

Online resources

https://moodle.uclouvain.be/course/view.php?id=4142

Bibliography

Document de référence "Harmonisation des références bibliographiques" en FIAL :
http://zeus.fltr.ucl.ac.be/Harmonisation_bibliographique.pdf

Faculty or entity

ELAL