Henrik, would you choose a one-year Master's thesis?
I found the third semester to be a mishmash that basically wasn’t thought through. We had regular lectures every week while we were at the same time in an internship.
If you could join the internship and the Master’s thesis together and collaborate with an upper secondary school in a way that made sense academically, then it could well be a good idea. Or similarly, if you could incorporate your profile course in the third semester so it was related to the topic of your Master's thesis.
I didn't feel I had the time to prepare properly prior to the Master's thesis. You rally want to be as well-prepared as possible before you even really begin in January or February, as otherwise you’ll already be behind schedule. I didn’t feel there was time to do that.
So personally, I think my stress level would fall if I could have incorporated the third semester – even though the requirements would be correspondingly higher and the Master’s thesis would have to cover 60 ECTS credits.
I would have liked to have a year so I could repeat some studies and see whether there’d been any developments.
Henrik Helth, English and dramaturgy. Writing a Master's thesis on indirect second language learning (language learning through the use of computers). Chose a profile course in the third semester with courses in didactics and incorporated an internship at an upper secondary school.