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Term Paper and Master's Thesis

Students of the Master’s Program "Politics. Economics. Philosophy" are expected to submit two pieces of written research.

The Term Paper is submitted during the 1st year of studies.
Master Thesis is defended at the end of the 2nd year of studies after the successful completion of all the other components of the Program.

Module Activity Dates
Module 2     Topic Application Term Paper/Master’s Thesis (submission to the Study office and LMS) before 1st of November 2024
First draft  of Master’s Thesis submission March 2025

Module 3
 

 

 

Module 4

 

   

Preliminary defense  Master’s Thesis Research Seminar mid-term exam exam (end of March 2025)
Project evaluation end of module 3 (2nd year) / end of module 4 (1st year)

Finalized  Master’s Thesis (LMS submission)

Finalized  Term Paper  (LMS submission)

mid-May 2025 

mid-June 2025 

Defense of Term Paper / Master’s Thesis

late May - early June 2025 (Thesis)

June 2025 (Term paper)

Necessary documents:

General documents
Requirements

Term paper and Thesis Requirements  

Cover Page Draft Standard Cover Page
Term paper documents
Term paper topic application Term Paper topic submission 
Term paper topic change

Term paper topic change 

Term paper supervisor change

Term paper supervisor change  

Term paper review template

Term paper Review Template 

Thesis documents
Thesis topic application Thesis topic submission 
Thesis topic change

Thesis topic change 

Thesis supervisor change

Thesis supervisor change  

Thesis review template

Thesis Review Template  

Politics.Economics.Philosophy Practical training regulations 2024/2025 (PDF, 604 Кб)

Regulations on Practical Training of Students under Core Bachelor’s, Specialist and Master’s Programmes at HSE University

Antiplagiat system

All students must submit not only their thesis with a written review of the supervisor, but also a printed registration form confirming that the text of the thesis has undergone the Anti-Plagiarism system.
Instructions for uploading works to the LMS are here. You can check your work in the Anti-plagiarism system.