Master 2022/2023

Research Seminar "Qualitative Methods"

Type: Elective course (Comparative Social Research)

Area of studies: Sociology

Delivered by: School of Sociology

Where: Faculty of Social Sciences

When: 2 year, 3, 4 module

Mode of studies: offline

Open to: students of one campus

Instructors: Marharyta Fabrykant, Arnab Roy Chowdhury

Master’s programme: Comparative Soсial Research

Language: English

ECTS credits: 14

Contact hours: 40

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The course on master thesis writing is designed to provide students with a thoughtful understanding of what are the main steps and procedures of 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 basic principles of academic writing
• 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

Course Contents

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

Assessment Elements

• Proposal Text
  Students should prepare a 2000 words proposal consisting of the intridyction, research question, hypotheses, and data and methods.
• Proposal Presentation
  Each student should make a 7-10 minutes pres4entation of their proposal covering all its sections.
• In-class activity
  Particilation in in-class activities

Interim Assessment

• 2022/2023 4th module
  0.1 * In-class activity + 0.6 * Proposal Text + 0.3 * Proposal Presentation

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• 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
• Rahlf, T. (2017). Data Visualisation with R : 100 Examples. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1377904
• Yuk, M., & Diamond, S. (2014). Data Visualization For Dummies. Hoboken, NJ: For Dummies. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=685381

Authors

• ALMAKAEVA ANNA MIKHAYLOVNA
• ROYCHOUDKHURI ARNAB -
• FABRIKANT MARGARITA SAULOVNA
• FRYOLIKH KRISTIAN -