FF:FAVD003 Doctoral Seminar - Course Information
FAVD003 Doctoral Dissertation Seminar (I-IV)
Faculty of ArtsSpring 2016
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/0. 10 credit(s). Type of Completion: graded credit.
- Teacher(s)
- prof. PhDr. Jiří Voráč, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
- Guaranteed by
- prof. PhDr. Jiří Voráč, Ph.D.
Department of Film Studies and Audiovisual Culture – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: prof. PhDr. Jiří Voráč, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Film Studies and Audiovisual Culture – Faculty of Arts - Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Theory and History of Theatre, Film and Audio-Visual Culture Studies (programme FF, D-OT4) (2)
- Course objectives
- The student must undertake eight dissertation seminars that consist of both individual tuitions and regular group meetings.
The student is to enroll in the seminar every semester of their studies except for the very first one.
The individual tuitions take place as needed, but at least once a semester. A respective part of the dissertation is need for credit grants.
The group meetings usually take place three times a semester. A presentation of work progress is needed for credit grants. - Syllabus
- ● Basic rules of the seminar’s group meeting:
- Each student is obliged to have four presentations in the course of their studies: presenting the project (2nd semester) – presenting a particular problem (usually theoretical/historical problem – 2nd year) – presenting a particular problem (usually a finalized chapter – 3rd year) – final presentation (4th year).
- The presentation last approx. 20 minutes (1st) and 30 minutes other presentations.
- An expert opinion and a moderated discussion follow.
- Full version of the presentation must be emailed to tutors and other doctoral students two weeks prior to the meeting.
- Meeting dates are announced one semester in advance. An invitation to the meeting is made public on the department website (usually after receiving the annotations).
- Special guests may be invited for consulting a specific problem.
- ● Sequential duties for the respective seminars are as follows:
- I.Project outline: description of the problem, scheduled progress, hypothetical outcomes, state of research in the respective field, sources(5 pages).
- II. Project outline: key terms, outline of the theoretical and methodological context, commented literature search (15 pages).
- III. Theoretical/historical introduction (25 pages).
- IV. First sample chapter (25 pages).
- V. Second sample chapter (25 pages).
- VI. Third sample chapter (25 pages).
- VII. Draft of the dissertation.
- VIII. Final version of the dissertation.
- Literature
- Literatura je předepsána individuálně podle tématu práce.
- Literature is assigned on an individual basis based on the topic of the thesis.
- Teaching methods
- Dissertation seminars consist of both individual tuitions and regular group meetings.
- Assessment methods
- Each credit is granted for:
● turning in a respective part of the thesis by the end of the exam period,
● presentations and active participation in seminar meetings. - Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course is taught each semester.
General note: Předmět je nutno absolvovat právě a pouze čtyřikrát. - Teacher's information
- http://www.phil.muni.cz/wufv/home/studium/obory/doktorske/doktorske
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2016, recent)
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