Описание:During the second academic year students are required to pass three research seminars which are logically connected to each other: Research Seminar #4 (2 ECTS, forth trimester) aimed to prepare first chapter of Master thesis; Research Seminar #5 (5 ECTS, fifth trimester) aimed to prepare 2nd and 3rd chapters of Master thesis; Research Seminar #6 (4 ECTS, sixth trimester) aimed to prepare a final version of Master thesis and to pass a pre-defense procedure.
All research seminars develop students’ skills of planning and conducting scientific research and skills to present results of the research. Students are required to deepen their knowledge in the chosen area of research, to evaluate critically existing theories and research undertaken previously, to be able to form their own point of view and research position in the chosen area of research. In addition to that students should be able to conduct the research which has practical value to businesses or which can help to develop own business idea. Students’ individual work is based on individual readings of academic articles, data collection, data analysis and thesis writing.
Assignments prepared for the purposes of the research seminars should form parts of the Master thesis.