Bachelors Paper with

Seminar
Info Session 24 September 2015

Weight/credits; importance
12 credits
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Vs Master thesis
1 credit = 25 30 study hours; 12 x 25 = 300 hours!
1/5 of the 3rd BA

To be able to take course you need to have max. 75

credits to complete the BA (not applicable to BA Abr)

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Evaluation
70 % for paper, graded by 2 readers
30 % participation at seminar sessions and presentation
Grade for both parts required Not attending seminar
sessions as required and not giving presentation = no
grade (NA)
The second examination attempt is limited to submitting
the course work. Participation and/or presentation cannot
be retaken.
No BA paper year. (If re-taken, new topic)
Pass BA programme = pass the BA paper with seminar
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Options on Offer
In 2015-2016 students can choose between four
seminars/options:
Social and Political Philosophy Dr. Martin Deleixhe
Metaphysics and Philosophy of Culture - Prof. W. Desmond; theme:

Metaphysics and Beauty

Logic and Analytic Philosophy - Dr. H. Ghijsen; theme: Philosophy of
perception
Ancient and Medieval Philosophy - Prof. P. De Leemans; theme: The
human body
Details for each option: BA paper webpage:

http://hiw.kuleuven.be/eng/programmes/bachelor/bapaper.html

Later on also on Toledo, under Bachelor's Paper: Seminar [W0AN5a], the

folder for the given option

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Sessions

1 introductory session (per each option)

1 session on presentation skills + 2 sessions on library
4 seminar sessions (1st semester)
1 2 feedback sessions in group (1st semster)
1 2 try out presentation sessions (2nd semester)
1 2 presentation sessions (2nd semester)

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Required joint sessions

Library Information Session, Part I

General info session on the use of library; compulsory for all options; given by S.
Spileers

Wednesday, 30 September 2015, 13-14, room B

Library Information Session, Part II

General info session on the use of library; compulsory for all options; given by S.
Spileers

Thursday, 1 October 2015, 13-14, room B

Session on How to give a Good Presentation

General info session on presentation skills; compulsory for all options, given by
Prof. R. Friedman

Date to be announced

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Seminar sessions
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Introductory session (, 1st semester, week 1 or 2): introduction to topic and approach
(4 1 hour); see the schedule or
http://hiw.kuleuven.be/eng/programmes/bachelor/bapaper.html

4 Seminar sessions (1st semester, weeks 2-5 or 3-6): reading and discussion of the
philosophical texts in class . One seminar session can be given as a lecture course.

1-2 Feedback session(s) (1st semester, week 7 or 8): discussion of research topic,
abstract, literature. Each student has to upload these three at least 1 week before
session.

Try out presentation session(s): 2nd semester, 2 weeks before presentation

session(s)

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10 -15 minutes (including feedback).

Students give part of their presentation (not longer than 10 minutes

Feedback on form/presentation/delivery skills only

Presentation session(s): before the Easter break

Between 25 and 30 minutes (including feedback).

Feedback on form and content.

BA paper: formal requirements

The instructor/coordinator of the option you choose supervises your paper.

+ the formal criteria checklist, signed by the student (not bound with the paper
but inserted in each hard copy)

The BA paper should be minimum 6250 and maximum 7500 words long not including the table of contents, bibliography, and footnotes or
endnotes and has to be typed, 1.5 spaced and bound. The word count has
be indicated at the end of the paper and the word count limits have to be
respected. The recommended font is Times New Roman 12pt and the
recommended format is A4. The BA paper can be printed on single or doublesided pages. The BA paper must be written in correct English, and contain a
coherent system of footnotes or endnotes.

BA paper must contain the following: title page (please use the template); table
of contents; bibliography;

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Formal requirements warning

The Formal Requirements set out above have to be
strictly observed! The BA Paper which does not fulfil
one of these requirements will not be accepted for
submission

We recommend you contact the HIW Writing Lab

throughout the process of writing your BA paper!

Do NOT plagiarise!

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BA Paper
Submission
For the 2nd exam session: Monday, 23 May, 2016, 5pm
For the 3rd exam session: Tuesday, 16 August 2016, 5pm
At the Student Secretariat; 2 hard copies of the paper (bound) + 2 hard
signed copies of the checklist
You also upload the BA paper electronically twice in Toledo : for
library archive and in Turnitin (software system for plagiarism check)
Please keep in mind that the BA paper that is not submitted as
required (in hard copy and uploaded electronically twice in Toledo, as
set out above), by the deadline (date and time), will not be accepted
for submission.
upload via Toledo, under Bachelor Paper, W0EB7a

http://hiw.kuleuven.be/eng/programmes/bachelor/bapaper.html
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