PřF:Z0018H Diploma Thesis Seminar 2 (HG) - Course Information
Z0018H Diploma Thesis Seminar 2 - Human Geography
Faculty of Scienceautumn 2021
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/2. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Ondřej Mulíček, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
- Guaranteed by
- Mgr. Ondřej Mulíček, Ph.D.
Department of Geography – Earth Sciences Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: Mgr. Ondřej Mulíček, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Geography – Earth Sciences Section – Faculty of Science - Timetable of Seminar Groups
- Z0018H/01: Wed 14:00–15:50 Z5,02004, O. Mulíček
- Prerequisites (in Czech)
- Z0017H Diploma Thesis Seminar 1 (HG) || Z0017A Diploma Thesis Seminar 1 (AG)
- 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
- Applied geography and geoinformatics (programme PřF, N-AGG)
- Applied Geography (programme PřF, N-GK)
- Social Geography and Regional Development (programme PřF, N-GK)
- Social geography and regional development (programme PřF, N-SGR)
- Course objectives
- An aim of the subject is to improve presentation and writing skills of students as preparation for master thesis writing. Students will be able to define own master thesis subject, to discuss hypothesis, to sketch the research, to interpret results of research, to propose solution of problem.
- Learning outcomes
- Learning outcomes can be summarized as follows: competence to analyze basic phenomena and processes related to the issue of the diploma thesis; competence to apply basic methods of research relevant from the point of view of the diploma thesis; competence to interpret basic results of own research.
- Syllabus
- Professional training of students. Within this framework, they practice and improve the following skills important for the successful completion of the diploma thesis and its defense:
- - topic selection;
- - setting goals, research questions, hypotheses;
- - working with professional literature;
- - methodology;
- - presentation of the results;
- - interpretation of results;
- - formal issues (text structure, interconnection, formal errors, ...);
- - DP defense.
- Literature
- KUNC, Josef, Václav TOUŠEK, Jiří VYSTOUPIL, Petr DANĚK, Pavel KLAPKA, Ondřej MULÍČEK, Daniel SEIDENGLANZ, Zdeněk SZCZYRBA, Michal VANČURA, Antonín VĚŽNÍK, Milan VITURKA and Petr TONEV. Ekonomická a sociální geografie (Economic and social geography). 1. vydání. Plzeň: Vydavatelství a nakladatelství Aleš Čeněk, s.r.o., 2008, 411 pp. učebnice vysokých škol. ISBN 978-80-7380-114-4. info
- MEŠKO, Dušan, Dušan KATUŠČÁK and Ján FINDRA. Akademická příručka. České, upr. vyd. Martin: Osveta, 2006, 481 s. ISBN 8080632197. info
- Teaching methods
- Class discussions about objectives of master thesis and presentations of own homework’s are the main teaching methods.
- Assessment methods
- The condition for a successful finishing of the course is 80% attendance in the seminars, plus participation in the discussion, homework’s and individual presentation of the master thesis.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (autumn 2021, recent)
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