Prerequisite/Recommended prerequisite for participation in the module

Knowledge, skills and competences corresponding to 1st, 2nd and 3rd semester of the Master’s programme in Sports Technology. All exams from semesters 1, 2 and 3 must be passed.

Content, progress and pedagogy of the module

The Master’s thesis is the last element of the scientific education, with the aim to integrate and/or deepen previously acquired skills and to display the ability to perform scientific work.

Learning objectives

Knowledge

• Have knowledge of instrumentation and physical performance as well as interplay between athlete and equipment at the highest international level of research
• Can reflect on this knowledge on a scientific basis

Skills

• Can identify and document a scientific problem within sports technology
• Can independently plan and design a scientific study on the basis of a well documented problem
• Can critically apply scientific methods and tools to research within the chosen area of knowledge
• Can evaluate and to choose scientific theories and methods and to identify scientific problems within the chosen area of research
• Can communicate problems, methods and results within the sports technology on a scientific level, in both oral and written form

Competences

• Can choose technologies, record, analyze and critically evaluate real and simulation results in relation to physical performance
• Can independently initiate and perform interdisciplinary collaboration within the field of sports technology 
• Can identify one's own need for new knowledge when working with sports technological problems and solutions
• Can reflect critically on one’s own learning process in a scientific work and on the basis of this reflection take responsibility for personal learning and development

Exam

Exams

Name of exam	Master’s Thesis
Type of exam	Oral exam based on a project
ECTS	30
Assessment	7-point grading scale
Type of grading	External examination
Criteria of assessment	The criteria of assessment are stated in the Examination Policies and Procedures

Additional information

Please contact the   programme student counsellors if you consider applying to the education and you have questions.

Please consult the Moodle page for your semester and contact the semester coordinator if you have academic questions, or the study secretary if you have administrative questions.

All other enquiries may be directed to Malene Møller Knudsen, secretary of the Study Board.