Mentor's Seminar

2024/2025

Academic Year

ENG

Instruction in English

6

ECTS credits

Delivered at:

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

Course type:

Elective course

When:

1 year, 1-4 module

Instructor

Shchetinina, Antonina

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

• Formation of individual student’s study plan
  Formation of individual student’s study plan
• Achieving goals and developing their professional competencies
  Essay: Achieving goals and developing their professional competencies in the context of studying on the master’s program
• interim project report
  Preparation of interim project report

Interim Assessment

• 2024/2025 4th module
  0.5 * interim project report + 0.5 * interim project report + 0.5 * Formation of individual student’s study plan + 0.5 * Formation of individual student’s study plan
• 2025/2026 3rd module
  1 * Achieving goals and developing their professional competencies + 1 * Achieving goals and developing their professional competencies

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

• Shchetinina Antonina Evgenevna