Examination arrangement

Course content

To receive a Bachelor's degree in logistics management, the students must choose a topic for their project based on the logistics course portfolio in the study program. Still, students with a Bachelor's in Business Administration can be part of the group of students, as long as they have the competence to contribute to the project. Preferably, students should choose their project from a portfolio of project ideas presented by local businesses and academic staff. Additionally, students may present their own project ideas in cooperation with external partners for acceptance.

Learning outcome

The Bachelor Thesis completes the student's study program and integrates important components from the course portfolio in logistics management. At the end of the course period, the student has achieved the following competencies:

Knowledge

• about theory on a chosen area from the course portfolio
• about scientific methods
• about the state of the art in their chosen field.

Skills

• Develop and plan how to carry out the work related to a significant research & development problem
• Analytically reflect on your own empirical data, consider possible solutions, and bring forward a chosen solution to the problem.
• Identify and evaluate relevant literature that is needed to solve the case
• Ability to carry out, document, and communicate the results from the project work according to an academic standard

General competence

• Have insight into academic standards and understand ethical challenges that are relevant to the chosen problem
• Have an awareness of how the research question and the project work may have an impact on the businesses and their surroundings from a sustainability perspective.

Learning methods and activities

There are no ordinary lectures in this course, but there will be short seminars to give information and generic support to the project process. Students will cooperate in groups of 3 participants. Each group is offered up to 7 hours of tutoring during the project period and in addition feedback on one draft. Tutoring will be in Norwegian or English.

Compulsory works :

• Application for project idea and group members
• Project plan and project contract
• Log
• Poster
• Individual reflection paper

Additionally:

An oral presentation is a part of the assessment in the course. As compulsory work, campus students have to be present during all oral presentations for students in Logistics Management and Business Administration.

All compulsory works have to be passed.

Compulsory assignments

• Approved exercises

Further on evaluation

About the assessment:

Written report with abstract in Norwegian and English. The report must be signed by all group members and uploaded before the deadline to be evaluated. Additionally, an oral presentation of the project is required. From this, the examiners may calibrate the preliminary grade from the written project +/- one grade, and the official grade is decided. Anyhow, the students must pass a written report (better than F) to meet for the oral presentation. Two examiners evaluate each project, and at least one is an external examiner. At the start of the semester, more guidelines about the course are presented on Blackboard.

About continuation:

If the bachelor course is not passed, the students may perform an improved thesis by the end of the next semester as a re-sit. In this case, 5 hours of tutoring is offered. Later, the students must carry out a new bachelor project according to ordinary rules in the course description at the time of re-sit.

Specific conditions

Required previous knowledge

The students must have earned 105 ECTS before Sept.01.in the fall semester when the bachelor work starts. The ECTS must be earned during semesters 1-4, and include passed exams in REA1153 Mathematics for economists (7,5 ECTS), REA1154 Statistics for economists (7,5 ECTS), and SMF2292 Quantitative and Qualitative Methods (7,5 ECTS).

Course materials

The literature will mainly depend on the chosen topic for the project. In general, the following literature gives useful guidance:

Recommended literature for methods:

• Oppen, M, Mørk, B.E. og E. Haus (2020) Kvantitative og kvalitative metoder i merkantile fag. Cappelen Damm Akademisk. ISBN13: 9788202410803
• Jacobsen, D.I. (2022) Hvordan gjennomføre undersøkelser?. Cappelen Damm Akademisk. ISBN/EAN: 9788202727307
• Johnstad, Tom (2022) Innføring i akademisk skriving. ISBN: 9788215060446