FF:SAKS091 Master's Thesis Seminar I - Course Information
SAKS091 Master's Thesis Seminar I
Faculty of ArtsSpring 2025
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/0/0. 10 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Filip Krajník, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Jana Pelclová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
doc. PhDr. Tomáš Pospíšil, Ph.D. (seminar tutor) - Guaranteed by
- doc. PhDr. Tomáš Pospíšil, Ph.D.
Center for North American Studies – Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Tomáš Hanzálek
Supplier department: Center for North American Studies – Department of English and American Studies – 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
- Anglophone and Francophone Area Studies (programme FF, N-SAKS_)
- Anglophone and Hispanophone Area Studies (programme FF, N-SAKS_)
- Anglophone and Francophone Area Studies (programme FF, N-SAKSA_)
- Anglophone and Hispanophone Area Studies (programme FF, N-SAKSA_)
- North-American Culture Studies (programme FF, N-FI)
- Course objectives
- The course takes the form of an electronic course and its objective is to prepare students for writing their final theses. The students work independently in the course, studying the methodology of research, quotation guiedlines, with the principles and formal aspects of academic writing as well as how to work with their secondary sources and how to avoid plagiarism.
- Learning outcomes
- Considering the formal aspects of writing a final thesis, students will learn how to: - outline the main area of their research interest - distinguish between primary and secondary sources - describe the linguistic, literary, cultural or social background of their research - articulate the main arguments and hypotheses - delineate the major research questions - work with quotation guidelines - work with their secondary sources and to avoid plagiarism - distinguish different types of plagiarism
- Syllabus
- 1.Preliminary thesis proposal
- 2.Primary materials
- 3.Plagiarism
- 4. Secondary materials
- 5. Annotated bibliography
- 6. Final thesis proposal
- Literature
- required literature
- How to write a thesis. Edited by Rowena Murray. 3rd ed. Maidenhead, England: McGraw Hill, 2011, xviii, 325. ISBN 9780335244294. info
- Publication manual of the American Psychological Association. Sixth edition. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 2010, xviii, 272. ISBN 9781433805622. info
- BUI, Yvonne N. How to write a master's thesis. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage, 2009, xviii, 300. ISBN 9781412957106. info
- CLARK, Irene L. Writing the successful thesis and dissertation : entering the conversation. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 2007, xxvi, 212. ISBN 9780131735330. info
- GIBALDI, Joseph. MLA handbook for writers of research papers. 5th ed. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1999, xviii, 332. ISBN 0-87352-975-8. info
- Teaching methods
- The course makes use of the methods of e-learning. Students work independently on 5 assignments listed in the syllabus of the course as well as sit 1 test on plagiarism. The teacher will provide the feedback to each assignment and will recommend the further steps in the students' writing and working with their sources.
- Assessment methods
- A fully on-line course. The credits are awarded for handing in all assignments in the course and getting at least 9 points of 12 in the test on plagiarism.
- Language of instruction
- English
- Further Comments
- The course is taught each semester.
- Teacher's information
- https://elf.phil.muni.cz/elf3/course/view.php?id=4826
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2025, recent)
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