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    A trick of graduate work is to make what you learn your own. Commented Feb 25 at 22:17
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    Your first paragraph looks like a very common part of a masters or PhD program to me. The goal is for you to properly understand the material. But from your question it sounds like your expanded notes from this should count as your masters thesis? Commented 2 days ago
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    A general advice: Ask your peers, what they are doing in their thesis and ask (best in person) TAs and other professors. Because you need to get a feeling for the "economocal" part of your field and you need a network so start early to build one. What do you want to do with that degree? If you want to go on with a PhD, it seems a bit underwhelming, to be honest. More like composing a script than doing a (small) research task. If you want to go into indurstry, nobody cares about the topic (with the rare exception if exactly this topic is needed). Commented 2 days ago
  • So what is a (small) research task from your perspective? Like making some original work? Commented 2 days ago
  • @Andrew_Ren: Ideally, yes. In a Master's thesis, you ideally work on a small sub-task of a research project. Sure, there is a lot of literature work to be done to get up to speed,but this should have a purpose and not be its own project (that I would find okay for a Bachelor thesis). The idea of a Master degree is to learn (and to show that you have learned) to be able to to research under guidance of a supervisor (PhD would be that without supervisor). Commented 2 days ago