Магистратура 2022/2023

Научно-исследовательский семинар «Количественные методы»

Статус: Курс по выбору (Сравнительные социальные исследования / Comparative Social Research)

Направление: 39.04.01. Социология

Кто читает: Департамент социологии

Где читается: Факультет социальных наук

Когда читается: 2-й курс, 3, 4 модуль

Формат изучения: без онлайн-курса

Охват аудитории: для своего кампуса

Преподаватели: Алмакаева Анна Михайловна

Прогр. обучения: Сравнительные социальные исследования

Язык: английский

Кредиты: 14

Контактные часы: 40

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The course on master thesis writi ng is designed to provide students with a thoughtful understanding of what are the main steps and procedures of quantitative social research and how they are linked to the different parts of master thesis.

Learning Objectives

• To have practical skills in conducting social research and writing master thesis

Expected Learning Outcomes

• be able to conduct analysis according to research questing
• be able to find and review papers on the subject of MA thesis
• be able to interpret data and draw conclusions
• be able to provide a nice visualization
• have skills in writing research papers and master thesis
• know the basic principles of academic ethics
• know the rules of writing master thesis
• to be able to put forward correct research question and identify the novelty of the MA thesis
• to be able to collect and describe data

Course Contents

• Structure of the master thesis
• Introduction
• Literature review
• Data and methods
• Results
• Discussion and conclusion
• Visualization

Assessment Elements

• Drafts of chapters
  Drafts of MA chapters
• Presentations of chapters
• Pre-defence of master thesis

Interim Assessment

• 2022/2023 4th module
  0.7 * Pre-defence of master thesis + 0.15 * Drafts of chapters + 0.15 * Presentations of chapters

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• Core data analysis : summarization, correlation, and visualization, Mirkin, B., 2019
• Longman academic writing series, level 5 : essays to research papers, Meyers, A., 2014
• Writing research papers from essay to research paper : student book, Zemach, D. E., 2011

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• Core concepts in data analysis: summarization, correlation and visualization, Mirkin, B., 2011
• Writing research papers : a complete guide, Lester, J. D., 2012