SAY700-02 - SPECIAL SUBJECTS
| Course Name | Code | Semester | Theory (hours/week) |
Application (hours/week) |
Credit | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SPECIAL SUBJECTS | SAY700-02 | 6th 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: Thesis Writing | |||||
| Instructor (s) | Faculty member at the department / Student advisor | |||||
| Course objective | The objective of this course is to get the student starting his/her data collection or preparation; as well as getting ready for analysis. | |||||
| Learning outcomes |
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| Course Content | General thesis work with extra attention to data and methodology. | |||||
| References | Related literature | |||||
Course outline weekly
| Weeks | Topics |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | Discussions for methods of the thesis (with advisor) |
| Week 2 | Data sources |
| Week 3 | Data sources |
| Week 4 | Meeting with advisor |
| Week 5 | Collecting data or describing variables |
| Week 6 | Collecting data or describing variables |
| Week 7 | Collecting data or describing variables |
| Week 8 | Collecting data or describing variables / Meeting with advisor |
| Week 9 | Collecting data or describing variables |
| Week 10 | Collecting data or describing variables |
| Week 11 | Collecting data or describing variables |
| Week 12 | Collecting data or describing variables / Meeting with advisor |
| Week 13 | Collecting data or describing variables / Writing methodology section |
| Week 14 | Colllecting data or describing variables / Writing methodology section |
| Week 15 | Colllecting data or describing variables / Writing methodology section |
| Week 16 | Colllecting data or describing variables / Writing methodology section / 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