GUIDES TO THE UNIVERSITY

The final paper is a concise paper written in either Italian or English (DIEM students must write it  in English). It develops a topic which may be purely theoretical or supported by empirical evidence, taking as a starting point work experience (internships) or study periods in Italy or abroad (preferably abroad for DIEM students).

For the program requirements of:

• CLEA, CLAPI, CLEFIN, CLELI, CLEACC, DES, CLEMIT the final paper is worth 6 credit points;
• DIEM the final paper is worth 10 credit points;
• CLSG the final paper is worth 4 credit points.
  
  

As a general guide, the paper is around 30 pages and may require about one month of work.

The contents of the final paper must be related to one of the subject areas of the Università Bocconi Institutes. However, it does not necessarily have to be related to one of the courses in the student's study plan.

Final papers are written under the supervision of a tutor.
If students want to base their final papers on either an internship or a period of study abroad, the tutor and student must agree on the topic before the student starts to write the final paper.

The final paper preparation stages are the following:

• orientation;
• final paper reservation (if required by the Institute);
• assignment;
• cancellation;
• submission.
  

NOTICE see the "Guide for writing the Final Paper" published on the Guide to the University 2009-2010.

For each Bachelor Program additional information could be provided for in, for the peculiarity of the courses of the Program. Any additional information will be given by each Bachelor Program Director and will come out when writing the final paper  from the contact between Tutor Professor and student.

Every Institute offers a Final Paper Service (SOLF - Servizio Orientamento Lavoro Finale)   which is responsible for:

• coordinating orientation activities for students on possible topics for final papers and teachers who are available as tutors;
• supervising the IT procedure for final papers.
  
  

The online orientation application is available on the website at http://www.unibocconi.it/solf, where students can also see the names of SOLF contact teachers.

NOTICE: See the updating in use starting from the Graduation Session of July 2008.