AJP69800 Master's Thesis Seminar I

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2024
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 10 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Renata Kamenická, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Ing. Mgr. Jiří Rambousek, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Renata Kamenická, Ph.D.
Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Tomáš Hanzálek
Supplier department: 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
Course objectives
Upon finishing the course, students will have formulated their preliminary thesis proposal, will have brushed up their academic writing and citation skills, compiled a list of primary and secondary sources they will be working with writing their Master's thesis, will have engaged with their framing sources and will have revised and refined their thesis proposal.
Learning outcomes
After completing the course, the students will
  • have formulated and refined their preliminary thesis proposal
  • be able to write their diploma thesis an appropriate stayle and with proper citations
  • be able to use their primary and secondary sources properly; a great part of the sources will alredy have been collected
    • Syllabus
    • 1: Preliminary Thesis Proposal formulation 2: Primary Materials 3: Secondary Materials 4: Annotated Framing Texts 5: Information Bank 6: Final Thesis Proposal
    Literature
    • 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.
    • KUBÁTOVÁ, Helena and 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. info
    • POKORNÝ, Jiří. Úspěšnost zaručena : jak efektivně zpracovat a obhájit diplomovou práci. Vyd. 1. Brno: Akademické nakladatelství CERM, 2004, 207 s. ISBN 807204348X. info
    • ECO, Umberto and Ivan SEIDL. Jak napsat diplomovou práci. Olomouc: Votobia, 1997, 271 s. ISBN 80-7198-173-7. info
    • GIBALDI, Joseph. MLA handbook for writers of research papers. 6th ed. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2003, xviii, 361. ISBN 0873529863. info
    • CICERO, Marcus Tullius. Rhetorica ad Herennium. Translated by Harry Caplan. Repr. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999, lxii, 433. ISBN 0674994442. info
    • GIBALDI, Joseph. MLA handbook for writers of research papers. 4th ed. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1995, xviii, 293. ISBN 0-87352-565-5. info
    Teaching methods
    A fully on-line course. The credits are awarded for handing in all assignments in the course.
    Assessment methods
    Credit will be awarded to students who will have completed all assignments in the required quality and improved their submissions as suggested by the teacher.
    Language of instruction
    English
    Further Comments
    Study Materials
    The course is taught each semester.
    The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2020, Autumn 2020, Spring 2021, Autumn 2021, Spring 2022, Autumn 2022, Spring 2023, Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024, Spring 2025.
    • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2024, recent)
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