Application Procedures for Thesis Oral Defense, 2nd Semester of 112 Academic Year

International Master Program on Natural Hazards Mitigation and Management
** Application Procedures for Thesis Oral Defense**

1.Application for Oral defense of thesis in this semester are divided into two batches:

 

1st Batch:

Application Deadline: April 30th, 2024 (before 5PM)

Thesis (Draft) Submission Deadline: May 10th, 2024 (submit to Program Office before 5PM)

Note: The number of the copies of your thesis is based on the number of oral defense committee members you invite.

Oral Defense Date: May 29th to May 31st, 2024

2nd Batch:

Application Deadline: May 31st, 2024 (before 5PM)

Thesis (Draft) Submission Deadline: June 14th, 2024 (submit to Program Office before 5PM)

Note: The number of the copies of your thesis is based on the number of oral defense committee members you invite.

Oral Defense Date: June 24th to June 28th, 2024

2.The procedures of oral defense application:

 

  • Complete online application and perform plagiarism detection for thesis originality:

 

Login to the “NCKU operation of postgraduate degree examination online application system” ( http://campus4.ncku.edu.tw/wwwmenu/program/mou/ ) Fill out the information such as defense date and defense committee name list. The venue will be arranged and booked by the Program Office, unless applicant’s advisor has other preference.

Perform plagiarism detection for thesis originality on Turnitin. (https://research.lib.ncku.edu.tw/er/search/db/?query_term=turnitin&query_field=ti&query_op=&match_type=&filter_term=DB&filter_field=type.raw&filter_op=term&searchbar=close)

The result of plagiarism detection of applicant’s thesis originality (excluding Reference part) are required to be 20% or lower. The application will be rejected if the detection result is higher than 20%. Please note plagiarism detection should be conducted again toward final version of the thesis before graduation.

  •  Submit the following documents to Program Office:

 

– Oral defense application form (with advisor’s signature)

– Plagiarism detection result (with advisor’s signature)

– Transcript

3.In principal, the number of off-campus oral defense committee members can’t exceed the number of applicants, which means one applicant is allowed to invite only one off-campus oral defense committee member.

 

4.Applicants are suggested to find an assistant to help with choirs (ex. setting up the exam venue and timing) on the oral defense date.