Note: Sign up in Oodi does not mean anything for this course, it is just for students to add this course to own courses in Noppa.

 Students sign up by sending an application to "course code as written in the beginning of this page"@tkk.fi as plain text in message body (and transcript of completed courses as an attached PDF) after the first meeting but before the deadline given in the schedule. Details of this application email are given below.

Before signing up, the student should choose five listed topics he or she is interested in.Prepare to do the seminar paper from any of these five topics in case too many students choose your primary topic area. The topics are presented in the first meeting, and after it on the topic list. If you want to suggest an own topic, you need to agree on it together with the professor. Notice that you need a tutor for the own topic too.

Note, that due to the limited amount of tutors on this seminar, we can only accept a maximum of 35 students to the course. It is therefore in your own interest to justify why you should be taken, since only partially filled or poorly justified applications will be among the first ones to be rejected.

In the e-mail you should be mentioned:

• First name, Last name
• Student number
• Contact information (e-mail address)
• Your cc.hut.fi account username (for the Optima account)
• Your major and minor (or the name of your master programme)
• Your transcript of completed courses (OODI) as attached file.
• Following Agreement: That in writing your paper you agree to follow the guidelines for research and scientific writing ethics presented in Good scientific practise and procedures for handling misconduct and fraud in science by National Advisory Board on Research Ethics
• Your 5 topic candidates listed in the way that at first is the topic that you prefer most (primary topic first, then secondary etc.). For each topic include following information:
  • The topic title (as given on the Introduction to topics page) including the tutor's name
  • The preliminary title of you paper and a short description of the problem setting that you will research.
• A justification:
  • The justification explains for the course personnel, why you should be able to take the course this term. How far are you in your studies (how many credits do you have) and why do you need to take this course. You could mention when you plan to start writing your thesis. If you are graduating soon and really need to take this course now, state so in your application.

The accepted students among with the topics they get to research and their personal tutors will be announced by email according to the course schedule.

The application e-mails will be acknowledged as the course personnel receive them. (The applications will be acknowledged manually - don't expect real-time answers.)