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Seminar: 08-351-4-MA-IR-MAT MA Thesis Seminar - Details

Seminar: 08-351-4-MA-IR-MAT MA Thesis Seminar - Details

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Course name Seminar: 08-351-4-MA-IR-MAT MA Thesis Seminar
Subtitle
Course number 08-351-4-MA-IR-MAT
Semester SoSe 2025
Current number of participants 15
expected number of participants 20
Home institute Politik
Courses type Seminar in category Teaching
First date Friday, 11.04.2025 14:00 - 17:00, Room: UNICOM 7.2210 (InIIS - Mary-Somerville-Str. 7)
Type/Form
Englischsprachige Veranstaltung Ja

Module assignments

Comment/Description

The seminar supports students in the process of conceiving, designing, and writing the thesis, complementing the input they receive from their supervisors. The thesis seminar consists of three workshops: In the first workshop students present their thesis topic and initial ideas about how to tackle it. The second workshop gives students an opportunity to present and discuss their fully elaborated research design, i.e. precise statements of their (final) research question, its (normative, scientific, or practical) relevance, its place in the literature, their working hypothesis (or hypotheses), the role of theory in their study, the methods they are employing and the reasons for choosing them, the data they are using, etc. Finally, the third workshop is devoted to discussing interim results of students’ investigation on the basis of a “writing sample”, i.e. a draft of the introduction or of a key chapter. In each workshop, students receive feedback from the instructor and their fellow students intended to help them identify problems in their arguments and possible solutions to these problems.

Assignments and Credits

3 CP: three progress reports

Registration mode

After enrolment, participants will manually be selected.

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