FSS:IREn5500 Academic skills review - Course Information
IREn5500 Academic skills review
Faculty of Social StudiesSpring 2025
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/1/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. Vratislav Havlík, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Martin Jirušek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Lukáš Lehotský, Ph.D. (lecturer) - Guaranteed by
- doc. Vratislav Havlík, Ph.D.
Department of International Relations and European Studies – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Olga Cídlová, DiS.
Supplier department: Department of International Relations and European Studies – Faculty of Social Studies - Prerequisites (in Czech)
- ! EUP435 Fundamental research design && ! NOW ( EUP435 Fundamental research design ) && ! IRE103 Academic Skills && ! NOW ( IRE103 Academic Skills )
- 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
- European Politics (programme FSS, N-IREP)
- International Relations and European Politics (programme FSS, N-IREP)
- Course objectives
- This course is meant to instruct and empower students in the skills necessary for success in the academic field as well as their future careers.
- Learning outcomes
- Upon completion, students will be able to - work with texts, explain the main goal, arguments, weaknesses, and strengths of the given study matter (orally and in a written form) - differentiate individual academic genres and use them in the correct context - present findings, opinions - communicate with their peers - give feedback - build an argument
- Syllabus
- The course focuses on the following: 1) Academic Genres 2) Preparing a paper 3) Designing a research 4) Referencing 5) Argumentation skills 6) presentation skills
- Literature
- SILVERMAN, David. Doing qualitative research. 6e. Los Angeles: Sage, 2022, xxi,631 st. ISBN 9781529769005. info
- PUNCH, Keith. Developing effective research proposals. 3rd edition. Los Angeles: Sage, 2016, 186 stran. ISBN 9781473916388. info
- CRASWELL, Gail. Writing for academic success : a postgraduate guide. 2nd ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2012, xi, 248. ISBN 9780857029287. info
- A student's guide to presentationsmaking your presentation count. Edited by Barbara Chivers - Michael Shoolbred. Los Angeles: SAGE Publications, 2007, x, 166 p. ISBN 9780761943693. info
- MCWHORTER, Kathleen T. Academic reading. 6th ed. New York, NY: Pearson/Longman, 2007, xxxii, 512. ISBN 0321364791. info
- Teaching methods
- - lectures - in-class discussions - group work - presentations - position paper - test
- Assessment methods
- Position paper Review Exam
- Language of instruction
- English
- Further Comments
- The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2025, recent)
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