The Master Thesis (MT) must show that the student is capable of carrying out sound and rigorous academic research. It should present an original argument that is carefully documented from primary and secondary sources. The students must do the work by themselves with the guide of an advisor.

The coordination the MT module appoints an academic tutor from the UAB to each student of the master, depending on the topic of their work.

The MT must be written under the guidance of an advisor (the academic tutor). The advisor has to be a PhD professor from a department or a research centre of the UAB. The academic tutor will supervise the student’s follow-up, providing general guidance, and helping the student to refine the objective of the work and to develop the argument of the thesis. Once the student has met the academic tutor, they will agree on a timetable for meetings and submission of drafts.

The Master’s Thesis Module is scheduled on the second term of the course and involves 375 hours of student work including the tutoring hours with the advisor. These tutoring hours will take place during several meetings, and at least 3 meetings are recommended (an initial meeting, a progress meeting and a final meeting).

To evaluate the Master Thesis (MT), the student has to deliver one printed copy of the work to the Master's Coordination and present orally the results to the Master Thesis Committee.

The final assessment will result of:

- The MT written document (50%)

- The oral exposition and defense of the MT (50%)

The MT document must not exceed 15,000 words, excluding appendices and bibliography. It must be written in English.

The MT Committee will consist of three PhD members and UAB professors. The MT defense will be in Englisht and it will include:

- The student’s turn: the student exposes their work during 15 minutes approximately.

- Question time: The three committee members ask questions during approximately 10 minutes to evaluate the exposed thesis.

Students will obtain the grade of "Not assessed" when the evaluated activities have a weight of less than 67% in the final grade.

Use of AI

For this subject, the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies is allowed exclusively in support tasks, such as bibliographic or information search, text correction or translations. The student must identify clearly which parts have been generated with this technology, specify the tools used, and include a critical reflection on how they have influenced the process and the final result of the activity. Non-transparency of the use of AI in this activity or its use for tasks where this is not allowed will be considered a lack of academic honesty and may result in a partial or total penalty in the grade of the activity, or greater penalties in serious cases.

The performance of any irregularity in an evaluation act (academic fraud, plagiarism or improper use of AI, unless such use is expressly authorized in the teaching guide) that may lead to a significant variation in the grade, means that this act will be graded with a 0. If the teaching guide provides that, in order to pass the subject, it is an essential requirement to have obtained a minimum grade in this evaluation act or that there are several irregularities in the evaluation acts of the same subject, the final grade will be 0. Apart from this, a disciplinary process may be initiated against the student who incurs in these irregularities.