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Development of Master’s Thesis and Defence
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:3.00
Study Course Accepted:02.02.2024 12:30:35
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | PZK_032 | LQF level: | Level 7 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 20.00 | ECTS: | 30.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Politics | Target Audience: | Political Science | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Māris Andžāns | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences | ||||||||
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| Contacts: | Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf rsu[pnkts]lv | ||||||||
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| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
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| Part-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
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| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | All the necessary study courses of the programme have been mastered. | ||||||||
| Objective: | Drafting and defence of a Master’s thesis. | ||||||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Drafting a Master’s thesis is an individual process with support of a research paper supervisor. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | Decision of the Master’s thesis defence commission. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Defence (Master’s thesis) | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | Defence (Master’s thesis) | ||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | Students will obtain in-depth knowledge of the selected topic of the Master’s thesis from both the empirical and theoretical perspective. Students will be familiar with the methodological and methodical issues of large-scale work that can be used not only in the development of this and other possible diploma papers, but also in professional activities. | ||||||||
| Skills: | Students will conduct large-scale individual work under stress, when a range of tasks of different importance and complexity are to be done at the same time. Skills acquired during the Master’s thesis development process will include work planning, task prioritization skills, as well as stress resilience skills. Students will deepen their skills to listen to the views of others (members of the defence commission, paper supervisor and students) about their work and assess the need for improvement. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | Through the development of the Master’s thesis, students will improve the competence to develop new innovative solutions in professional work in the academic environment, public administration, the non-governmental sector and the business environment. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Depatment of Political science Master`s thesis guidelines. Rīga: Rīga Stradiņš University, 2020 | ||||||||
| 2 | Rīgas Stradiņa universitātes Nolikumus “Nolikums par kvalifikācijas darba, studējošā pētnieciskā darba, bakalaura darba un maģistra darba izstrādāšanu un aizstāvēšanu” | ||||||||
| 3 | Atsauču un darbā izmantoto avotu un literatūras saraksta noformēšanas metodiskie norādījumi. Rīga: Rīgas Stradiņa universitāte, 2016 | ||||||||
| 4 | Rīgas Stradiņa universitātes Nolikums “Studējošo kvalifikācijas, bakalaura, maģistra vai citu noslēguma darbu elektronisko versiju iesniegšanas un uzglabāšanas kārtība RSU institucionālajā atvērtās piekļuves e-resursu repozitorijā | ||||||||
| 5 | Ārvalstu studnetiem/For international students: | ||||||||
| 6 | Riga Stradiņa University Regulations "Regulations on developing and defending a qualification thesis, student research thesis, bachelor's thesis and master's thesis" | ||||||||
| 7 | Methodical instructions for drawing up a list of references and sources and literature used in the work. Riga: Riga Stradins University, 2016 | ||||||||
| 8 | Rīga Stradiņa University Regulation "Procedure for submission and storage of electronic versions of students' qualifications, bachelor's, master's or other final theses in RSU's institutional open access e-resources repository | ||||||||
| 9 | Depatment of Political science Master`s thesis guidelines. Rīga: Rīga Stradiņš University, 2020 | ||||||||
