Admission requirements
You can only enroll for the bachelor thesis after having completed the propedeuse (1st year) and when you have obtained a minimum of 60 ec for the courses of the 2nd and 3rd year. One has to be sufficiently advanced in the bachelor courses and studies to be able to succeed at this third year course due to the high level subjects and required standards.
Additionally, with certain thesis subjects specific courses can be listed as special admission requirements (art. 4.2.1.a bachelor OER).
Description
In the bachelor thesis you will report on independently carried out research regarding a legal subject. In the thesis you have to show your ability to report in an analytical and critical manner and reflect on existing analyses and questions within certain fields of law that remained unanswered. This should be done based on the research of law, literature, case law etc. Furthermore, you must demonstrate that you can write a thesis independently to a great extent. The thesis should satisfy the criteria relating to language and form which are set in your field.
The objective of the bachelor thesis is the application and further acquiring of skills such as formulating a research question, doing research, structuring, reasoning and academic writing. Compared to the master thesis, it is of less importance which specific subject has been chosen for the bachelor thesis.
Course objectives
- See ‘course description’
Achievement levels
Upon completion of the course, you are able to:
perform legal research;
write good legal argumentation;
form an opinion and/or choose a well-motivated position and express a point of view empowered by arguments.
Timetable
The timetable for the bachelor thesis 2015/2016 will be published on the blackboard page BACHELOR III THESIS IBL 1516
Mode of instruction
Lectures
Number of (2 hour) lectures: 1
Names of lecturers: t.b.a.
Required preparation by students: none
Assessment method
Examination form(s)
- Written work
Submission procedures
- See Blackboard
Areas to be tested within the exam
- For the assessment criteria/marking of the thesis please visit the Blackboard page.
Blackboard
More information on this course is offered in Blackboard.
Reading list
Obligatory course materials
- The ‘Leidraad voor juridische auteurs’.
Recommended course material
- To be announced
Registration
The registration for the ba-3 thesis consists of two steps:
A general registration
A registration on subject
The general registration will start in January 2016. First you have to enrol through the general registration procedure. The general registration will be open for enrolment in January 2016.
After the completion of this general registration, students can choose a subject. The subjects will be open for enrolment approximately a month after the commencement of the general registration. The choice of subjects will be limited and the enrolment in a subject is going to be on a first-come first-service basis.
More information on the registration procedures will be published on Blackboard in the beginning of January 2016.
Contact information
Co-ordinator: t.b.a.
Email: t.b.a.
Institution/division
- OIC
Remarks
You can find more information on what is expected from you, as well as on what you might expect from your supervisor, in the thesis manual.
In exceptional cases and under certain conditions the bachelor thesis can be written in another semester. Extensive stays abroad are an example –according to article 3.1 of the ‘Onderwijs- en Examenregeling Bachelor Rechtsgeleerdheid’. More information can be found in the booklet on staying abroad.