FSS:ESSn4500 Diploma Seminar - Course Information
ESSn4500 Diploma Seminar
Faculty of Social StudiesSpring 2022
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/2/0. 20 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. Mgr. Filip Černoch, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. et Mgr. Veronika Velička Zapletalová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor) - Guaranteed by
- doc. Mgr. Filip Černoch, Ph.D.
Department of International Relations and European Studies – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Olga Cídlová, DiS. - Prerequisites (in Czech)
- ! ESS409 Diploma Seminar && !NOW( ESS409 Diploma Seminar )
Students enrol this course in their last intended term before they sit for final exam. Defence of the thesis is a part of the exam. - Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Energy Security Studies (Eng.) (programme FSS, N-MS)
- Energy Policy Studies (programme FSS, N-EPS) (2)
- Course objectives
- The student’s task is to conduct independent research under the guidance of their supervisor in their chosen field of study. By the end of the course, students will analyze the results of this research and prepare the presentation of the research. They will compose an academic text, according to the length and formal standards common in their field (incl. structure of the thesis, abstract, key words, format, citation standard and list of references and bibliography). This involves the following specific outcomes: • - Defining a specific research topic in their field • - Organizing, designing, and managing independently conducted research • - Collecting and recording data • - Analyzing and interpreting the data • - Relating the data analysis to social science theory • - Composing an academic text meeting the theoretical, methodological and formal standards in their field • - Preparing to defend their thesis
- Learning outcomes
- Thesis.
- Syllabus
- The course has the form of individual consultations with the supervisor in all stages of thesis completion.
- Literature
- HAKIM, Catherine. Research design : strategies and choices in the design of social research. London: Routledge, 1987, xii, 211 s. ISBN 0-415-07911-X. info
- BECHHOFER, Frank and Lindsay PATERSON. Principles of research design in the social sciences. 1st pub. London: Routledge, 2000, ix, 172. ISBN 0415214432. info
- How to write a thesis. Edited by Rowena Murray. 3rd ed. Maidenhead, England: McGraw Hill, 2011, xviii, 325. ISBN 9780335244294. info
- Teaching methods
- The student participates in individual consultations with the supervisor in all stages of thesis preparation, writing, and completion.
- Assessment methods
- This course takes the form of individual consultations of students’ theses with their supervisors. It concludes with a credit granted by the supervisor upon the condition that the student submits their final thesis in time. The thesis needs to meet the terms set in the assignment and comply with formal requirements and standards in the respective field of research.
- Language of instruction
- English
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
The course is taught each semester.
The course is taught: in blocks. - Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
- ESS409 Diploma Seminar
!ESSn4500 && !NOW(ESSn4500)
- ESS409 Diploma Seminar
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2022, recent)
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