Module GW5990-KP30
Master Thesis in Health and Healthcare Science (GWMArbeit)
Duration
1 Semester
Turnus of offer
each summer semester
Credit points
30
Course of studies, specific fields and terms:
- Master in Health and Healthcare Science 2019, compulsory, health sciences
- Master in Health and Healthcare Science 2025, compulsory, health sciences
Classes and lectures:
- Writing the Master Thesis (supervised self studies, 1 SWS)
- Colloquium (presentation (incl. preparation), 1 SWS)
Workload:
- 30 hours oral presentation (including preparation)
- 870 hours private studies
Contents of teaching:
- By arrangement
Qualification-goals/Competencies:
- Knowledge and understanding: Students can independently assess the suitability of specific research and development methods for their own issues and draw appropriate conclusions.
- Knowledge and understanding: Students will be able to appropriately describe, analyze, and synthesize collected information about the object of inquiry in terms of new knowledge.
- Knowledge and understanding: Students are able to independently deepen and expand methodological and technical knowledge in an application-related manner and transfer it to new, unknown or incompletely developed subject matter.
- Use, application, and generation of knowledge: To the greatest extent possible, students can independently formulate workable questions for a research paper based on a known/observed problem and develop an appropriate plan of study.
- Use, application, and generation of knowledge: Students will be able to implement the developed curriculum independently to the greatest extent possible in all stages of the research process.
- Use, application, and generation of knowledge: To the greatest extent possible, students will be able to independently identify and appropriately assess difficulties encountered in the research process and draw appropriate consequences for continuing the research.
- Communication and cooperation: Students are able to describe and justify the necessity, methods and results of their research work in a plausible and target group-oriented manner. In doing so, they take into account established standards for scientific reporting.
- Communication and Cooperation: Students are able to collaborate and cooperate with all persons necessary for the successful conduct of research and communicate with them in an appropriate manner characterized by respect.
- Scientific self-image/professionalism: Students are able to recognize and consider the ethical, legal and, if applicable, socio-cultural dimensions or implications of their work and reflect on them in discourse with the professional or general public.
- Scientific self-concept/professionalism: Students have an advanced awareness of their various roles and responsibilities in their chosen field of scientific work and are willing and able to implement these responsibilities in decision-making and action in the scientific work process and in the dissemination of their own results.
Grading through:
- written exam, oral presentation, and defence of the experiment´s results
Responsible for this module:
- Studiengangsleitung
Teacher:
- All institutes of the University of Lübeck
- Alle prüfungsberechtigten Dozentinnen/Dozenten des Studienganges
Language:
- thesis can be written in German or English
Last Updated:
16.09.2025