Guidance and advice for studies | Faculty of Art and Design

Studies

General writing instructions

Writing and assessing academic texts plays a significant role in higher education. Please familiarise yourself with our general writing instructions concerning e.g. academic text types, layout and referencing.

Lecture log

You can earn credits by attending our guest lectures, seminars and public defences related to art and design, marking them on your lecture log and producing a lecture journal. Lectures organised outside of our university must be pre-approved by a professor in your degree programme.

Copyrights of project and thesis work

Familiarise yourself with the copyrights of the students' project and thesis work.

Please print out and sign the agreement on the rights of your project work and theses.

Facilities

Using the F-wing facilities in the evening

You can work in the F-wing without a separate key Mon–Fri 7.30–20.00. However, note the exceptions.
If you have an electronic key, you may access the facilities also after these times and weekends. You can enter the F-wing through the F5 entrance every day between 7.00 and 23.59. If you come and leave after 20.00, you must use the F5 entrance and have a key.

You may request an electronic key at the information desk in the main lobby and F-wing Mon⁠–⁠Fri mainly 8.00–16.00.

Safety instructions

Before you start working in our facilities, familiarise yourself with our common ways of working and safety guidelines in our TTK_toimintaohjeet_pajat.pdf

Graduation

Thesis and graduation

Under the Thesis and Graduation section on our general Studies pages you will find the steps of completing a bachelor's and master's thesis, as well as instructions on research ethics, the reassessment procedure, maturity test and applying for a degree certificate.

Artistic Part in the Thesis

The Master's thesis can be done either solely as a scientific thesis or as a combination of an artistic production and an associated written part. The artistic part can be presented in the written section or as an attachment, describing the production visually and verbally. The artistic and written parts can form a comprehensive entity to be evaluated. The artistic part can also be separately assessed as a part of the thesis when the artistic part is presented in a form other than a written work. When the artistic and written parts are evaluated separately, the supervisor of the thesis gives permission for the publication of the artistic production and separately grants permission for the readiness of the scientific section to be evaluated and the information to be provided to the faculty's office. In the written part, it must be indicated if the thesis includes a separately assessed artistic part.

Thesis evaluation instructions

Evaluation instructions for master's thesis >

Confidential data

Does your thesis include data that is considered confidential? Read our instructions on concealment of confidential data and sign a non-disclosure agreement.
Confidentiality of a master thesis.pdf
Application form for declaring a pro gradu thesis partly confidential.pdf

Permission to provide covers for a thesis

The students in our faculty are required to fill in a form for permission to provide covers for a thesis.

After graduation

The faculty congratulates the graduates

Our graduates.

Apply for doctoral studies

Read more about applying for doctoral studies.