Application

The application for admission to the Bachelor's thesis must be submitted in writing to the Examination Board. You can find the application form to register your thesis in the Documents and Forms section or here. To apply for admission, you must have earned at least 140 credit points.

Topic

The topic will be discussed with the first examiner by the registration deadline and submitted to the Examinations Office at the time of registration.

The topic will be reviewed by the examination board before the deadline. The examination board may make changes to the submitted topic. The second examiner is specified on the registration form. This examiner must agree to review the thesis. If no second examiner can be found, the examination board will appoint one.

The decision of the Examination Board regarding admission, examiners, deadlines and the proposed topic will be communicated to you in writing at the start of the processing period.

Deadlines

Processing time and scope

The processing time for the Bachelor's thesis is 11 weeks. The length of the Bachelor's thesis should be 120,000 - 150,000 characters including spaces (plus any documentary appendices such as tables, sources, transcripts). The number of pages results from the selected font and formatting, taking into account the above-mentioned characters.

Withdrawal

The topic of the Bachelor's thesis can only be returned once within 4 weeks of the start of the processing period. If the candidate withdraws from the examination before the topic of the Bachelor's thesis has been issued, registration for the examination is deemed not to have taken place.

Extension

If a submission deadline is not met for an important reason, the submission deadline can be extended upon request by a maximum of half of the originally planned processing time. The examination board decides on exceptions.

Submission

The Bachelor's thesis must be submitted in duplicate in printed form to the BISO Examinations Office and also in digital form (PDF) by email to the Examinations Office. The postmark/receipt of the email is the submission date.

Personal submission:
please note the opening hours

Submission by post:
please send two bound copies by post to:

University of Siegen
Prüfungsamt BISO
Adolf-Reichwein-Str. 2
57076 Siegen

Assessment

The Bachelor's thesis is assessed and evaluated by the first examiner and the second examiner. The reviews must be returned to the Chair of the Examination Board with a grade no later than eight weeks after receipt of the thesis.

The Bachelor's thesis must be assessed by 2 examiners with a grade of at least "sufficient" (4.0). The grade of the Bachelor's thesis is calculated from the arithmetic mean of the individual grades.

If one of the two different assessments is worse than "sufficient" or if the two assessments are more than two full marks apart, the Examination Board will appoint a third assessor.

Failure, attempted cheating

The Bachelor's thesis is deemed to have been assessed as "insufficient" (5.0) if the candidate withdraws from the examination after the topic of the Bachelor's thesis has been issued without a valid reason or does not submit the Bachelor's thesis on time.

If the candidate attempts to influence the result of the examination by cheating, the Bachelor's thesis is deemed to have been failed with a "fail" (5.0).

Retake

In the event of a failed attempt (failed), the Bachelor's thesis can be repeated once.

Declaration of independence

The candidate must attach a written declaration to the thesis stating that he or she has written the thesis independently and has not used any sources or aids other than those specified and has identified any quotations(declaration of independence).

Further information can be found in the subject examination regulations for the Bachelor's degree program in Social Work (in conjunction with the superordinate framework examination regulations), see download area.