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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

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

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

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

Course Contents

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

Assessment Elements

  • non-blocking Presentation of Master's Thesis Design
    .
  • non-blocking 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

Interim Assessment

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

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
  • Makarov Aleksei Stanislavovich
  • SUCHKOVA EKATERINA OLEGOVNA