Courses Bachelor Display 2025-2026

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Course title Writing a Bachelor’s Thesis
Course code EBS2080
ECTS credits 2,5
Assessment Pass / Fail
Period
Period Start End Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri
1 1-9-2025 17-10-2025 C
4 2-2-2026 27-3-2026 C
Level no level
Coordinator Matthias Wibral
For more information: m.wibral@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Language of instruction English
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During this skills course, you will be taught the basics of writing a bachelor's thesis. The course consists of an opening lecture with general information about the thesis process, followed by 2 workshops during which you will learn basic academic research skills such as setting up a research question and design, developing hypotheses, performing a literature review, proper citing and referencing and the use of AI.

Note that you have to register for the actual (8 ECTS credits) Bachelor's thesis (course code starting with EBT) separately.
The Bachelor's thesis starts in Period 2 or Period 5 (depending on your study abroad), please select "Period 2" or "Period 5" when registering for the Bachelor's thesis (instead of "Period 2+3" or "Period 5+6").

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Evaluation in previous academic year For the complete evaluation of this course please click "here"
This course belongs to the following programmes / specialisations
Bachelor Economics and Business Economics - Economics Thesis
Bachelor Economics and Business Economics - Economics and Management of Information Thesis
Bachelor Economics and Business Economics - International Business Economics Thesis
Bachelor International Business Thesis