SAY700-01 - SPECIAL SUBJECTS
| Course Name | Code | Semester | Theory (hours/week) |
Application (hours/week) |
Credit | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SPECIAL SUBJECTS | SAY700-01 | 5th Semester | 5 | 0 | 0 | 30 |
| Prequisites | Completion of courses and success from the proficiency exam | |||||
| Course language | English | |||||
| Course type | Must | |||||
| Mode of Delivery | Face-to-Face | |||||
| Learning and teaching strategies | Other | |||||
| Instructor (s) | Faculty member at the department / Student advisor | |||||
| Course objective | The objective of this course is to get the student starting their dissertation work. | |||||
| Learning outcomes |
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| Course Content | General thesis work with extra attention to literature review. | |||||
| References | Related literature | |||||
Course outline weekly
| Weeks | Topics |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | Research questions for the thesis (with the advisor) |
| Week 2 | Research questions for the thesis |
| Week 3 | Self-study on literature review |
| Week 4 | Self-study on literature review / Meeting with advisor |
| Week 5 | Self-study on literature review |
| Week 6 | Self-study on literature review |
| Week 7 | Self-study on literature review |
| Week 8 | Self-study on literature review / Meeting with advisor |
| Week 9 | Writing the literature review |
| Week 10 | Writing the literature review |
| Week 11 | Writing the literature review |
| Week 12 | Writing the literature review /Meeting with advisor |
| Week 13 | Writing the literature review |
| Week 14 | Writing the literature review |
| Week 15 | Writing the literature review |
| Week 16 | Writing the literature review /Meeting with advisor |
Assesment methods
| Course activities | Number | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance | 0 | 0 |
| Laboratory | 0 | 0 |
| Application | 0 | 0 |
| Field activities | 14 | 40 |
| Specific practical training | 0 | 0 |
| Assignments | 0 | 0 |
| Presentation | 14 | 10 |
| Project | 0 | 0 |
| Seminar | 0 | 0 |
| Midterms | 0 | 0 |
| Final exam | 1 | 50 |
| Total | 100 | |
| Percentage of semester activities contributing grade succes | 28 | 50 |
| Percentage of final exam contributing grade succes | 1 | 50 |
| Total | 100 | |
WORKLOAD AND ECTS CALCULATION
| Activities | Number | Duration (hour) | Total Work Load |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Duration (x14) | 14 | 5 | 70 |
| Laboratory | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Application | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Specific practical training | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Field activities | 14 | 20 | 280 |
| Study Hours Out of Class (Preliminary work, reinforcement, ect) | 14 | 20 | 280 |
| Presentation / Seminar Preparation | 14 | 17 | 238 |
| Project | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Homework assignment | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Midterms (Study duration) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Final Exam (Study duration) | 1 | 32 | 32 |
| Total Workload | 57 | 94 | 900 |
Matrix Of The Course Learning Outcomes Versus Program Outcomes
| D.9. Key Learning Outcomes | Contrubition level* | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1. Gains theoretical knowledge on research methodology, concepts on quantitative research methods, quantitative sampling techniques, learning, implementing, and developing models and techniques in quantitative analysis, theory, and develops skills to transform and improve knowledge into design, implementation, analysis. | X | ||||
| 2. Gains theoretical knowledge on qualitative research methods, theory, and skills to transform and improve knowledge into design, sampling, generating data and analysis, knowledge on differences between methods and their use, improvement/combined use of these methods, evaluation with experts and institutions, focus groups and in-depth interviews, skills to implement them. | X | ||||
| 3. Gains ability to evaluate quality of researches, interpret/improve results with experts and institutions, transform the results into oral/written presentations, and present them at (inter)national meetings. | X | ||||
| 4. Develops skills to conduct generalizable research, interpret results of analyses, transform them into publications abiding by ethics, gain ability and consciousness to prepare (inter)national projects, evaluate them with experts and institutions. | X | ||||
| 5. Contributes to development of methods by producing a thesis using research methods. | X | ||||
| 6. Follows international publications, communicate with colleguaes, using English at a level no lower than the Common European Framework of References for Languages B2. | X | ||||
*1 Lowest, 2 Low, 3 Average, 4 High, 5 Highest