Creating a dissertation project focusing on a municipality makes use of skills and knowledge you have learned in many different subjects.

Language and literature: The dissertation uses skills learned during the language and literature courses. These include planning and writing text with the correct grammatical and stylistic features, as well as referencing sources in a correct manner. 

Geography: The instructions for the dissertation have been devised in a way that thematically connects the dissertation project to the 9th grade geography course. The dissertation can either be incorporated into the 9th grade geography course as a small project, or it can be the primary method of study during the course. 

History and social studies: History studies things in relation to time, whereas geography studies things in relation to space. The dissertation can focus on how the municipality's history has affected its current geographical features, or alternatively focus on studying municipal history from a geographical perspective.


An old town hall in Rauma, Finland.