For Bachelor's and Master's theses, the latest time for registration is the second week of November/April.

To register, you must submit the completed and printed registration form from PAUL to us at the chair (secretary's office or post office box).

We will inform you of the introduction procedure and all other components of our supervision concept as soon as your thesis has been accepted by our department (see supervision concept and additional module).

Choice of subject

In your application, please give a clear indication of your preferred topics, which we have called for proposals for the respective semester on this page. Please also include a short description with 2-3 paragraphs for each topic, indicating the possible motivation (from an academic rather than a personal perspective) for the topic.

For applications for your own proposed topic or a practical project for Master's theses, please submit a short exposé with a research question and possible research methodology for your proposed topic.

If you are accepted at the chair, please arrange a consultation appointment with the assigned supervisor as soon as possible.

If you are writing a thesis at our department, we will register you via PAUL for the additional module Fundamentals of Scientific Work for Research Projects(M.184.2159 for Bachelor and M.184.4159 for Master). The seminar is intended to familiarise you with the procedure for scientific work and thus support you in the preparation of your specific research work.

In preparation, you will continuously expand your exposé until you register. We will support you with the additional module and in personal meetings with the methodological approach and organisational matters. The exposé must be submitted once for checking and preparation of the subsequent presentation. After the presentation, the exposé should be finalised and submitted again before the thesis is registered. In this way, we want to create planning security for you and us and ensure a certain quality standard that will benefit you.

A guide to the formal design of academic papers and a format template for your thesis, exposé and presentations at our chair can be found here. In general, we follow the APA guidelines for formatting and citation.