LEARNING OUTCOMES
The aim of the course is for each student to research in depth, a topic of their speciality, to refer to bibliographic sources by gathering the necessary information, to study and draw their conclusions and, finally, to write their work.
The purpose of student research is to dig up and review the knowledge gained so far, to delimit and study a problem, to interpret a phenomenon or situation and to combine the above, depending on the subject and the student’s ability to analyse, synthesise and logical processing of data. The most common approaches are the literature review, the experimental-research study, the investigation of various cases and the clinical-statistical studies. The intended objectives, with the elaboration of the diploma thesis are the following:
1. Enhancing the student’s ability to deal with a problem.
2. The enhancement of learning, through the study and elaboration of one significant problem and
the acquisition of new knowledge derived from the study.
3. Enhancing the student’s ability to give a complete and correct solution to the problems that may arise.
4. The student’s practice in seeking, exploring, choosing, using and recording data from bibliographic sources.
5. The student’s practice in writing and presenting a text with data from bibliographic sources, without changing the meaning of the information obtained.
6. The student’s training in the ability to write not just one thesis but any kind of text it needs to contain scientific thinking, presentation of positions and proposals, submission of new ideas and directions. In general, any kind of text, which serves the scientificism of its author and the promotion of their ideas and proposals.
Upon completion of the course the student will know to:
• Participate in a research team
• Compile and follow a research work protocol.
• Evaluate research findings
• draw conclusions from the research findings
SYLLABUS
The student, during the last semester of studies, prepares an undergraduate Thesis. The topic must be directly related to topics of his speciality in Optics and Optometry. The topics of the Undergraduate Thesis are proposed by the faculty members, who also undertake the supervision of the thesis. Upon completion of their work, the student presents it publicly in a three-member committee, which consists of faculty members of the Department. The presentation can be attended by other faculty members as well as students.