Course: Bachelor Thesis Seminar

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Course title Bachelor Thesis Seminar
Course code KVV/BSBCP
Organizational form of instruction Seminar
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study 3
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Ponocná Petra, Mgr. Ph.D.
  • Kučerová Lenka, Mgr. Ing. Ph.D.
  • Myslivec Jaroslav, Ing. Ph.D.
  • Rýdl Karel, prof. PhDr. CSc.
  • Ehlová Marcela, PhDr. Ph.D.
  • Křišťálová Jana, PhDr.
  • Ďatko Ilona, PhDr. Mgr. Ph.D.
  • Sychrová Adriana, Mgr. Ph.D.
  • Hájková Lucie, Mgr.
  • Šándorová Zdenka, PaedDr. Ph.D.
  • Jiránek Tomáš, doc. PhDr. Ph.D.
Course content
The choice of a topic; a scholarly problem. Formulation of aims, hypothesis, and thesis. Gradual steps of heuristics. Working with sources. The structure of the content of a project. Quantitative and qualitative methodology. The choice of the methods and forms, according to a topic. The descriptive and empirically researched work. The efficiency of feedback; an assessment. Formal processing of the work - a regulation and a model. Quotations, bibliography, appendixes.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Work with text (with textbook, with book), Methods of individual activities
  • Participation in classes - 26 hours per semester
  • Individual project - 20 hours per semester
  • Data/material collection - 20 hours per semester
  • Independent critical reading - 24 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
The objective of this course is to consult with the students their final thesis regarding the methodological principles of formulating the aims, hypothesis, problems, and overall structure, as well as the form and content of paper.
Particular themes and problems will be discussed during the term. This course will also concentrate on the understanding and mastery of various methodological procedures for processing information, for classification, and for evaluation. Methodological help regarding the processing of individual texts and their formal perfection. Students will learn about authorial law, the principles of review, the opponent's activity, and graphical symbols of an editorial character.
Prerequisites
unspecified
KVV/BMETV

Assessment methods and criteria
Student performance assessment

Credit is based on attendance of seminars and writing a paper.
Recommended literature
  • Nároky na závěrečné práce na Univerzitě Pardubice.. 2001.
  • Zákon o ochraně autorských práv..
  • ORT,P. Tvorba bakalářské práce.. Praha: VŠMVV, 2004.
  • SKALKOVÁ, J. Metodologie pedagogického výzkumu. Praha: SPN, 1985.


Study plans that include the course
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