Project Proposal

2024/2025

Academic Year

ENG

Instruction in English

1

ECTS credits

Delivered at:

Department of Information Systems and Technologies (Faculty of Informatics, Mathematics, and Computer Science (HSE Nizhny Novgorod))

Course type:

Compulsory course

When:

4 year, 3 module

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The preparation and defense of Project Proposals is a mandatory element of the thesis preparation. Project Proposal must be conducted in accordance with the annual thesis preparation Guidelines announced by the Faculty Board. The Project Proposal should reflect the accomplished work on thesis writing and include the topic description, problem statement, and research questions; the relation of the thesis’s topic to existing research areas based on the literature review; description and motivation behind the proposed methodology, data, and method. The proposal should not only list what the student plans to do but also convince the readers of the feasibility of the study and the proposed study plan. Literature review in the Project Proposal should cover the main research areas related to the thesis topic and analyze no less than 15 key English-language references. As a mandatory appendix to the project proposal, the student attaches the full list of references for the literature review, indicating the exact search query used for obtaining the list when using the bibliography search engines. If this appendix is missing, the literature review band is graded “0”. In case of conducting the bachelor thesis as a scientific paper, the student has a right to provide the Project Proposal formatted in accordance with the publisher's requirements, but it should still communicate the main points required by the Guidelines.