Master
2023/2024
Mentor's seminar "Population and Development"
Type:
Compulsory course (Population and Development)
Area of studies:
Public Administration
Delivered by:
Department of Demography
Where:
Faculty of Social Sciences
When:
2 year, 1-4 module
Mode of studies:
offline
Open to:
students of one campus
Master’s programme:
Population and Development
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
3
Contact hours:
18
Course Syllabus
Abstract
Mentor’s seminar (MS) is an additional "playground" for academic communication between the students and the Academic supervisor of the programme together with the invited specialists from the different HSE University Units. A guided development of the research ideas and the ways of their finalization in the papers or analytical works gives the students’ opportunities for the basic academic and research skills improvement. Within the MS activity the students could be oriented to the research fields close to their interests and advantages as well as the vision of the skills to be developed and improved for the further achievement in different fields (including the academic and market spheres).
Learning Objectives
- The main goals of this discipline are following: 1) To guide the students with their research ideas converted into the materials for the proposal and finally to the thesis 2) To guide the students with the electives 3) To demonstrate the opportunities of the practical use for the skills received
Expected Learning Outcomes
- 1) This course will provide you with knowledge on the basics of economy;
- - Identify trends and challenges for HRM in the global organizational context
- A student compares research design
- A student knows the main approaches in the field and can use the main methods in political science
- - Understand public speaking, including through technical means; - extract implicit information from an oral message of a monological or dialogical nature;
- Able to think critically and interpret the experience (personal and of other persons), relate to professional and social activities
- A student can critically evaluate and rethink the accumulated experience (one's own and another's), think about professional and social activities.
- exam
- exam 2
Assessment Elements
- Short Presentation
- Present your proposal in class
- Proposals’ submission
- The first pre-defense of Master's thesis
- The second pre-defense of Master's thesis
- Discussion on PhD
Interim Assessment
- 2022/2023 4th module0.3 * Present your proposal in class + 0.5 * Proposals’ submission + 0.2 * Short Presentation
- 2023/2024 1st module1 * The first pre-defense of Master's thesis
- 2023/2024 4th module0.1 * Discussion on PhD + 0.9 * The second pre-defense of Master's thesis
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- A cultural approach to interpersonal communication : essential readings, , 2012
- Academic writing for graduate students. Essential tasks and skills, Swales J.M., Feak C.B., 2014
- An applied reference guide to research designs : quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods, Edmonds, W. A., 2013
- Doing social network research : network-based research design for social scientists, Robins, G., 2015
- Handbook of research design and social measurement, , 2002
- How to Write a Master's Thesis, Bui, Y.N., 2013
- How to write a thesis, Eco, U., 2015
- How to write a Thesis, Murray, R., 2011
- How to write about economics and public polycy, Petchko, K., 2018
- How to write and publish a scientific paper, Gastel, B., 2017
- Methodological thinking : basic principles of social research design, Loseke, D. R., 2017
- Principles of research design in the social sciences, Bechhofer, F., 2000
- Qualitative Research Design. An Interactive Approach, Maxwell J.A., 2013
- Research design : qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods approaches, Creswell, J. W., 2018
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- How to write : successful essays, dissertations, and exams, Mounsey, C., 2013
- How to write a lot : a practical guide to productive academic writing, Silvia, P. J., 2019