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Course: 2023/2024

Master's Thesis

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Master in Consulting and Legal Consulting Job (Plan: 432 - Estudio: 303)

EPD

Coordinating teacher: MERCADER UGUINA, JESUS RAFAEL

Department assigned to the subject: Social and Private International Law Department

Type: Master Final Project

ECTS Credits: 6.0 ECTS

Course:

Semester: 2º

Objectives

The Master's dissertation es the final step in the Degree's curriculum. The approach is professional, in coherence with the Master's goal and contents. The student acquires competences of analysis of practical legal problems, of search of sources, of application of rules and case law to real problems, of reasoning, of oral and written communication, and of innovation.

Skills and learning outcomes

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Description of contents: programme

At the outset of the semester, the Dissertations' Director will publish one or more practical cases, so that the students solve them. Said cases will include contents of several courses of the Degree. The director will assist the students during the semester, but without providind direct solution to the cases and problems posed to them. The students will write the solutions in a final essay. The essay will have to be orally defended in front of an examination panel.

Learning activities and methodology

Classes, with both theoretical and practical contents. Tutorials (office hours). Student's work. Regulation of the Dissertation: https://e-archivo.uc3m.es/handle/10016/29326

Assessment System

The student must submit their work in writing to the examination panel, made up of three professors of the Master.
The student must defend orally their work in front of the panel. The student must answer the questions asked by the panel.
There will be a calling in june/july and another one in september. It is up to the student to decide which calling to attend. The student may attend only one calling in the academic term.

The University uses the Turnitin Feedback Studio program within the SIGMA for the delivery of student work. This program compares the originality of the work delivered by each student with millions of electronic resources and detects those parts of the text that are copied and pasted. If the student has correctly made the appointment and the bibliographic reference of the documents he uses as a source, Turnitin will not mark it as plagiarism.

% end-of-term-examination 100
% of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 0

Calendar of Continuous assessment

Additional information

Useful information for the elaboration of the Work End of Master

The course syllabus may change due academic events or other reasons.