Master Thesis

Guidelines to prepare a Master Thesis

The guidelines summarize the procedures to be followed by students planning to write a thesis for their master degree. They discuss prerequisites, administrative and organizational issues as well as time constraints. Moreover, students find guidance about structure and elements generally contained in a Master Thesis.

These guidelines come along with helpful appendices (also available as a docx file from your supervisor):

• Appendix 1: Application for admission to the Master Thesis (in German as "Antrag auf Zulassung zur Masterarbeit" with English translation)
• Appendix 2: Grading scheme for a Master Thesis
• Appendix 3: Layout of the title page
• Appendix 4: Example for a table of contents

Titles of completed Master Theses

• Changes of water sources for precipitation in Europe under a warming climate
• Acoustic facies mapping of Yermak Plateau in the Arctic Ocean
• The influence of climate on the growth of urban trees in Bremen
• Oxygen and carbon isotopes in subfossil tree rings – potential climate proxies?
• Paleoenvironments of Powell Basin, Antarctica since the Penultimate Glacial Period