Master's Project
About the course
What you will learn
The aim of the master’s project is to demonstrate the ability to conduct independently a qualified piece of research within the field of tourism and hospitality. More specifically, to achieve the grade 12, students have to meet the following learning objectives with no or only minor mistakes:
- Demonstrate the ability to produce a qualified piece of research within the tourism and hospitality field independently that applies relevant methods and theories;
- Document in-depth knowledge of the subject of the thesis, including the conditions and circumstances in which it is embedded;
- Formulate a research question that has relevance to the field;
- Motivate the choice of theory and/or other prior literature used to address answer the research question;
- Motivate the choice of methodology used to address the research question;
- Document the analysis through the selection and processing of primary and secondary sources and/or the development of instantiations of a problem solution;
- Discuss the quality of the analyzed sources or solutions, including their appropriateness in terms of providing answers to the research question;
- Explain and evaluate the overall coherence between: the research question, the selection and use of theory, the applied method, the analysis, the conclusion, and the generalizability of the findings;
- Critically reflect on theoretical and practical aspects the finding;
- To follow academic conventions in the written and oral presentation.