Orientation and Follow-up Seminar II (Dissertation)

Objectives

This curricular unit aims to assist students in the design and development of their research work, leading to the preparation and presentation of a dissertation. In the third semester of the masters course, the work carried out in the curricular unit will focus on the research stages of project design, exploration of the problem and planning of the empirical study. Thus, throughout the semester, the student should be able to:

1. Use appropriate data collection procedures

2. Conduct the qualitative and / or quantitative analysis of the collected data

3. Organize and write up the dissertation

Program

1. Data collection
2. Data analysis
3. Organization and writing of the dissertation

Teaching Methodologies

The methodology will focus on the active role of the student in identifying and solving problems related to his or her dissertation work. All activities to be carried out are based on an applied approach. The themes chosen for these activities will be oriented to the training, evaluation and improvement and of students’ research skills and will result from the teachers’ diagnosis of students’ learning needs and interests. The work will build on the research activities carried out by the students as part of their research projects and on their analysis and discussion.

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