I am typing my thesis' cover page, our university has a typesetting requirement in this link
http://www.helsinki.fi/socialsciences/studying/current/thesis_cover.pdf
I need to reproduce this cover page in my LaTeX setting; could anyone teach me how to do this?
Use the titlepageenvironment. Assuming you're using a separate tex file for that, which you include using \input{filename}in your main file, your titlepage tex-file should look somewhat like this
\begin{titlepage}
\setlength{\parindent}{0pt} %remove indent at new paragraph
\vspace*{5cm} %vertical space
\textbf{
\huge{
\textsc{
The title of the series
}
}
}\\[25mm] %space after line
\textbf{
\Large{
Possible Subtitle
}
}
\vspace*{10cm} %vertical space
\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{p{10cm} X}
& Name \\
& University \\
& Faculty \\
& Major \\
& Date \\
\end{tabularx}
\end{titlepage}
This is a little sloppy. I didn't put in all the correct text from your example but I hope you get the idea of everything.
You will have to tweak the \vspace*{distance}a little and maybe also the p{distance}in the tabularx table. Regarding that, you will of course need
\usepackage{tabularx}
in your preamble. There's other ways to align text (like the tabto package), but I prefer tables.
Hope that helped; comment if you have questions.
\noindent; but probably it's better to set \setlength{\parindent}{0pt} after \begin{titlepage} to have complete control over the various elements' position.