Bachelor's thesis

In the final year, you complete your programme with a Bachelor's thesis. When choosing a topic, it makes sense to be guided by the knowledge you have gained in your specialisation (or other courses).

Bachelor's thesis History (15 EC)	Writing thesis under supervision

When do you write your Bachelor's thesis?

You'll write your Bachelors's thesis in study periods 1-2, 2-3 or 3-4.

Submitting and uploading your thesis

Once you have completed your thesis, you must submit it via Osiris Student. Osiris also provides you with evaluation progress as well as your final grade. Once your thesis has been approved, you will need to upload the final version in our thesis archive.

When your supervisor has indicated that your thesis is ready for assessment, proceed as follows:

You upload your thesis in Osiris Student > Cases > My cases > Start a new case by using the plus icon in the bottom right corner. A new window will open. Make sure your pop-up blocker is turned off for the new window to open. Choose Thesis and graduation > HUM: Thesis evaluation
You upload your thesis in Blackboard
(to check for plagiarism).

Is your thesis finished and has it been approved as well as assessed? Then you will need to upload the final version to the thesis archive via Osiris Student > Cases > Archive & publish thesis - Follow-up Case.

Your thesis will remain in Osiris for 7 years.

What should you consider when uploading your thesis?

Upload the final version, i.e. without comments and/or markings.
Be cautious about including personal details (e.g. telephone number).
You are responsible for any copyright infringement.

Master's student? Publish your thesis

Are you a Master's student? In that case, you can publish your thesis for visibility through Google/WorldCat. You publish your thesis by ticking the appropriate box. Bachelor theses do not have to be published.

Publication embargo

You can also choose not to publish your thesis, for example because you will be doing further research. In that case, you can set an embargo date. This allows you to block your thesis until a certain date. If you still want to publish your thesis at a later date, please contact the Student Information Desk Humanities.

The Department of History and Art History annually awards a prize of € 500 for the best thesis using digital methods or techniques. With this award we aim to stimulate digital (art)historical research among students.

When is a thesis eligible?

Your thesis qualifies if you have successfully applied digital methods or techniques in it:

The answer to the research question relies predominantly on digital methods or techniques.
All digital methods are allowed: from digital text analysis to GIS and from network analysis to 3D modeling.
The method is based on existing software or on (your own) programming code (in R or Python, for example).
Your thesis is written in the academic year 2023/24.

To submit a thesis

Please send an email to Pim Huijnen before 15 September 2024, including the following information:

Subject: Thesis prize Digital (Art)History
Attachment: the thesis itself (as .doc or .pdf)

You can both be nominated by thesis supervisor or you can compete on your own initiative.

The jury

Joris van Eijnatten (Professor of Digital History, head of the NL eScience Center Amsterdam)
Pim Huijnen (Assistant professor of Cultural History, Coordinator of the GKG Digital History Group)
Ortal-Paz Saar (Assistant professor for Ancient History and Classical Civilization
Selin Dilli (Assistant professor for Economic and Social History

Winners

Best RMA thesis 2021-2022: Edo Storm
Best bachelor thesis 2020-2021: Suzanne Ros

More information

Send an email to Pim Huijnen: p.huijnen@uu.nl

Forms and procedures Bachelor's thesis

Your Bachelor's thesis will be assessed following specific evaluation procedures. You can prepare for this by reading the following documents and explanations prior to starting your thesis.

A Bachelor's thesis is assessed by two lecturers. If your supervisor is one of the lecturers teaching in the Bachelor's programme, then this person will also be the first assessor (or the 'examiner').

Your thesis is assessed using an assessment form (DOC). If there is a large difference of opinion between the first and second assessors, a third assessor will be engaged, who will always work with a separate assessment form (DOC).

Utrecht University takes all forms of academic deception very seriously. We expect all students to observe the ethical standards of proper academic conduct. When you start writing your thesis, you must therefore submit the plagiarism awareness declaration form (PDF) as an acknowledgement that you have read the university's regulations regarding fraud and plagiarism. Lecturers or supervisors will report any suspected cases of fraud or plagiarism tot the Board of Examiners.

In case you are doing research that involves interviewing people, submitting questionnaires or involving people in any other way, you are probably doing human-subject related research. If so, please review the checklist and discuss it with your supervisor. The checklist contains information on privacy, ethics and data management.

History

Bachelor's thesis

When do you write your Bachelor's thesis?

Submitting and uploading your thesis

Upload your thesis into Osiris Student

Upload your thesis into the thesis archive

What should you consider when uploading your thesis?

Master's student? Publish your thesis

Publication embargo

Digital history thesis award

When is a thesis eligible?

To submit a thesis

The jury

Winners

More information

Forms and procedures Bachelor's thesis

Assessment

Fraud and plagiarism

Do you use participants for your research?

Bachelor's thesis

When do you write your Bachelor's thesis?

Submitting and uploading your thesis

Upload your thesis into Osiris Student

Upload your thesis into the thesis archive

What should you consider when uploading your thesis?

Master's student? Publish your thesis

Publication embargo

Digital history thesis award

When is a thesis eligible?

To submit a thesis

The jury

Winners

More information

Forms and procedures Bachelor's thesis

Assessment

Fraud and plagiarism

Do you use participants for your research?

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