Research Seminar

2024/2025

Academic Year

ENG

Instruction in English

6

ECTS credits

Delivered at:

Department of Financial Management (Faculty of Economics)

Course type:

Elective course

When:

1 year, 1, 4 module

Instructors

Krekhovets, Ekaterina

Makarov, Alexey S.

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The research seminar focuses on the methodological aspects of preparing the master's thesis prospectus. During the seminar, students formulate the goals and objectives of future research, review the literature and research methods, describe the expected results and their practical significance. During the last two NIS classes, a public defense of the prospectus takes place.

Learning Objectives

• The main goal of this course is to introduce students to the basic steps of conducting and academic research. As a subgoal the course aims at developing the skill of navigating, reading and understanding the research literature.

Expected Learning Outcomes

• Formulate the practical significance of the planned research results
• Be able to formulate the goals and objectives of the study
• Students learn what academic research is and what role does it play in political science. Students learn which parts does research include and how fo they compose in a single paper

Course Contents

• Goals and objectives of prospectus.
• goals and objectives
• How to read a research paper

Assessment Elements

• Presentation of Master's Thesis Design
  .
• Research design
  .he research design is assessed: formulation of the topic, objectives, hypotheses and research question of the master's thesis. Review of literature and data for the research.

Interim Assessment

• 2024/2025 4th module
  1 * Presentation of Master's Thesis Design
• 2025/2026 2nd module
  1 * Research design

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• 100 activities for teaching research methods, Dawson, C., 2016
• Abbott, M., & McKinney, J. (2013). Understanding and Applying Research Design. Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=531530
• Guidelines for Research Text Writing : методические указания / составитель К. Н. Волченкова. — Челябинск : ЮУрГУ, 2022. — 44 с. — Текст : электронный // Лань : электронно-библиотечная система. — URL: https://e.lanbook.com/book/323909 (дата обращения: 00.00.0000). — Режим доступа: для авториз. пользователей.
• Intelligent research design : a guide for beginning researchers in the social sciences, Hancke, B., 2010
• Schoonenboom, J. (Department of E. F. of P. and E. U. of V., Johnson, R. B. (Department of P. S. U. of S. A., & R. Burke Johnson. (2017). How to Construct a Mixed Methods Research Design. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11577-017-0454-1
• Terttu Orci. (1996). A Guide to Writing a Master’s Thesis.
• Writing your master's thesis : from A to Zen, Nygaard, L. P., 2017
• 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

• Боголепова, С. В. How to write a research article in English. Theory and practice. = Как написать исследовательскую статью на английском языке. Теория и практика : монография / С. В. Боголепова , под редакцией Д. Коннолли. — Москва : ФЛИНТА, 2022. — 108 с. — ISBN 978-5-9765-4647-9. — Текст : электронный // Лань : электронно-библиотечная система. — URL: https://e.lanbook.com/book/292505 (дата обращения: 00.00.0000). — Режим доступа: для авториз. пользователей.

Authors

• Егорова Екатерина Игоревна
• SUCHKOVA EKATERINA OLEGOVNA
• Makarov Aleksei Stanislavovich