Academic Writing & Final Theses
Guidelines
The following documents are at your disposal:
The most important guidelines:
- Upload your paper INCLUDING the declaration of independence in the corresponding folder on Stud.IP as ONE PDF (WORD documents are not accepted!). Please name the PDF with your full name.
- Papers uploaded after the deadline will not be accepted.
- Please DO NOT send the paper to the chair by email or post!
- The absence of a cover sheet and declaration of independence has a negative impact on the evaluation. The templates for both documents are available as pdf here.
Please refer to the document Advice on academic work as well as to the APA Referencing Style 7th edition.
Literature on Southeast Asia
Passau University Library
For information on books, journals and e-journals, databases and recent acquisitions please consult the University Library.
The University's Database Information System (DBIS) contains a link to the digital library portal Library PressDisplay, which gives access to a wide range of daily and weekly news publications such as The Straits Times and the Bangkok Post.
The Passau Archive on Southeast Asia
The Department of Southeast Asian Studies possesses a collection of newspapers and journals with information on Indochina covering the period 1957 to 1976. The collection includes editions of the newspapers Nhân Dân, Chính Luận and Saigon Post as well as documents published by the Joint Publications Research Service (JPRS) on North Vietnam and East and Southeast Asia.
Please have a look at the full list of available documents, which are stored in the University Archive (German). Requests to view documents should be sent to Mr Mario Puhane.
Internet
For research on Southeast Asia we recommend the following websites:
- New Mandala https://www.newmandala.org/
- Channel NewsAsia https://www.channelnewsasia.com
- Inside Indonesia https://www.insideindonesia.org/
Theses
Theses may be presented in German or English under the supervision of Professor Padmanabhan or Dr. Trotier. Each student has three meetings with their supervisor and these should be arranged well in advance. As part of the process, students are required to present an abstract and outline structure of the thesis to the supervisor for approval. For help in choosing a topic, please review our current research and talk to members of academic staff. Possible thesis topics include:
- Comparative studies of development policy and process
- Institutional analysis
- Trans- and interdisciplinarity
- Gender studies
- Social ecology, rural development
- Social movements, civil society organizations, activism
- Religion
- Human–nature relations
- Popular culture
- Nationalism and memory
Please refer to the General Study and Examination Regulations
For Masterstudents (only in German!)
For Bachelorstudents (only in German!)
The thesis must be submitted in two bound copies and in a standardized electronic form (USB Stick!) specified by the supervisor to the Examination Office by the deadline.
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