FF:AJU2902 Master's Thesis Seminar - Course Information
AJU2902 Master's Thesis Seminar
Faculty of ArtsSpring 2025
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
In-person direct teaching - Teacher(s)
- Nicola Catherine Fořtová, B.A., M.A. (lecturer)
doc. Mgr. Tomáš Kačer, Ph.D. (lecturer)
PhDr. Simona Kalová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Jana Kubrická, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Jitka Sedláčková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
PhDr. Kateřina Tomková, Ph.D. (lecturer) - Guaranteed by
- Thomas Rankin, Dr. phil.
Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Tomáš Hanzálek
Supplier department: Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts - Prerequisites (in Czech)
- AJU2901 Research design
- 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
- there are 11 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
- Course objectives
- Studenti individuálně konzultují svou práci s vedoucím podle potřeby studenta a s ohledem na úroveň a postup rozpracovanosti práce. V programu Učitelství anglického jazyka a literatury pro střední školy studenti píší didakticky zaměřenou práci podle projektu diplomové práce.
- Learning outcomes
- The students are able to: • conduct and evaluate classroom research • appropriately present their research in written form • write several chapters of their theses, including theoretical part, review of literature, empirical part
- Syllabus
- This subject is organized individually. Students register for the seminar in the semester preceding the semester when they plan to submit their thesis. The supervisor typically addresses the following aspects of the emerging manuscript: • The appropriateness of data collection and analysis with regard to the selected tradition. • The appropriateness of the presentation of selected findings. • The structure of the theoretical part and of the review of literature, the appropriateness of the presentation of theoretical background. • The correctness and accuracy of references to other works. • Adherence to the APA style.
- Literature
- recommended literature
- ECO, Umberto a Ivan SEIDL. Jak napsat diplomovou práci. Olomouc: Votobia, 1997. 271 s. ISBN 80-7198-173-7.
- KUBÁTOVÁ, Helena a Dušan ŠIMEK. Od abstraktu do závěrečné práce : jak napsat diplomovou práci ve společenskovědních a humanitních oborech : praktická příručka. 4., přeprac. vyd. Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci, 2007. 90 s. ISBN 9788024415895.
- Creswell, J. W. (2012). Educational research. Planning, conducting and evaluating quantitative and qualitative research. (4th ed.). Boston: Pearson Education.
- Dörnyei, Z. (2007). Research methods in applied linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- POKORNÝ, Jiří. Úspěšnost zaručena : jak efektivně zpracovat a obhájit diplomovou práci. Vyd. 1. Brno: Akademické nakladatelství CERM, 2004. 207 s. ISBN 807204348X.
- Further literature for the diploma thesis seminar is assigned on an individual basis based on the topic of the thesis. | (in Czech) Literatura pro diplomový seminář je předepsána individuálně podle tématu práce.
- Teaching methods
- The minimum of 2 individual consultations, reading, individual work of the student.
- Assessment methods
- The supervisors award the credit based on the requirements: a minimum of 2 consultations with the supervisor and several chapters from the theoretical part, a review of the literature and an empirical part of the thesis (based on the supervisor's requirement).
- Language of instruction
- English
- Further Comments
- The course is taught each semester.
- Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2025, recent)
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