Mentor's Seminar

2025/2026

Academic Year

ENG

Instruction in English

Delivered at:

Department of Accounting, Analysis and Audit (Faculty of Economics)

Course type:

Compulsory course

When:

1 year, 1-4 module

Instructor

Zotova, Yana

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The mentor’s seminar is aimed at developing an individual educational trajectory and individual educational results in a professional track for a master’s program student

Learning Objectives

• Formation and accompaniment of the student’s educational trajectory according to the chosen professional path

Expected Learning Outcomes

• Reasoned formation of individual curriculum.
• Justification of a choice of the individual elements of the curriculum
• Matches education plans with the chosen professional trajectory
• Understands the project’s goals and objectives, is able to work with data and scientific literature to achieve the result of the project activity
• Reasoned formation of individual curriculum
• Justifies the selection of individual elements of the curriculum
• Matches their educational plans with the chosen professional trajectory
• Justification of a choice of the individual elements of the curriculum;

Course Contents

• Mentor’s Setup Seminar. Structure of the educational program "Finance": expectations, rules, opportunities.
• Individual curriculum as a tool for achieving educational goals
• Organization of project activities on the master’s program «Finance»
• Monitoring the students' learning process

Assessment Elements

• Presentation of the planned research results, practical significance and/or scientific novelty.
• Development of the professional competencies in the context of studying on a master's program
• Presentation of Master's Thesis Design
• Essay

Interim Assessment

• 2025/2026 4th module
  0.15 * Development of the professional competencies in the context of studying on a master's program + 0.1 * Essay + 0.25 * Presentation of Master's Thesis Design + 0.5 * Presentation of the planned research results, practical significance and/or scientific novelty.
• 2026/2027 3rd module
  1 * 2025/2026 4th module

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• How to write a master's thesis, Bui, Y. N., 2014
• Improving project performance : eight habits of successful project teams, Wellman, J. L., 2011
• Strategic project management, Roberts, P., 2012
• Terttu Orci. (1996). A Guide to Writing a Master’s Thesis.
• Ylijoki, O.-H. (2001). Master’s Thesis Writing from a Narrative Approach. Studies in Higher Education, 26(1), 21–34. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075070020030698

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• Writing your master's thesis : from A to Zen, Nygaard, L. P., 2017

Authors

• ZOTOVA YANA NIKOLAEVNA
• SUCHKOVA EKATERINA OLEGOVNA