FF:RLDS4 Doctoral Seminar IV - Course Information
RLDS4 Doctoral Seminar IV
Faculty of ArtsSpring 2019
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/2/0. 30 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. PhDr. David Václavík, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. PhDr. Luboš Bělka, CSc. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Aleš Chalupa, Ph.D. (seminar tutor) - Guaranteed by
- doc. PhDr. David Zbíral, Ph.D.
Department for the Study of Religions – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Kateřina Sedlářová
Supplier department: Department for the Study of Religions – 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
- Study of Religions (programme FF, D-PH4) (2)
- Course objectives
- The aim of this course is to finish an advanced draft of the dissertation which will undergo an internal peer-review in the following semester in the framework of the course RLDP PhD Thesis in the Study of Religions. At the end of this course, students will be able to:
- work with sources (datasets) and literature;
- analyse the collected data;
- write an extensive and very good academic text;
- understand and express the current state of research into the selected topic and the place the outcomes of the dissertation project hold in the current debate;
- assess critically diverse previous approaches to the researched topic;
- formulate well-founded conclusions.
- Syllabus
- Analysis of data / sources.
- Consultations with the supervisor (alternatively also with the designated consultant).
- Submitting finished and proof-read parts of the dissertation to the supervisor and getting his/her feedback.
- At least three corrections of the resulting text.
- Submission of the advanced draft in the IS MU.
- Literature
- Teaching methods
- Consultations with the supervisor (alternatively also with the designated consultant); addressing oral and written feedback to the drafts of individual parts of the dissertation.
- Assessment methods
- Consultations (30 percent); submission of an advanced draft of the dissertation, evaluated by the supervisor and by the course coordinator (70 percent). The advanced draft has to contain all parts of the dissertation including footnotes, bibliography, and summary in the language of the dissertation (the English summary and English keywords may be added later). The draft has to be polished from the point of view of language, style, methodology, and the state of the art, and ready for the internal peer-review.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Follow-Up Courses
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- Study Materials
The course is taught each semester.
General note: Povinný zápis v předposledním semestru studia.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2019, recent)
- Permalink: https://is.muni.cz/course/phil/spring2019/RLDS4