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Drafting and Defence of the Master's Thesis
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:7.00
Study Course Accepted:02.02.2024 12:26:19
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | KSK_146 | LQF level: | Level 7 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 20.00 | ECTS: | 30.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Communication Sciences | Target Audience: | Communication Science | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Līga Ozoliņa | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf rsu[pnkts]lv | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 5 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 10 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 0 | Class Length (academic hours) | 0 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 0 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 10 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Courses “Analysis of Communication Situations”, “Theoretical Models of Communication”, “Media Theories” have been mastered. | ||||||||
| Objective: | The course supports advancement of a Master’s thesis project forming with the help of theoretical approaches and practical examples a clear report on tasks to be performed, as well as by practically developing and conceptually creating the Master’s thesis creation plan and theses of the Master’s thesis. Its principal goal is to provide profound knowledge about principles of creation of an academic research paper in communication science focusing on theoretically conceptual, methodological, logical, argumentation and text production principles. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Introductory class. Research planning. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Scientific (and science fiction) style (historical retrospect, impact of different cultures, modern characteristics) in the Latvian language stylistic system. Substyles and typical genres of scientific style. Adaptation of scientific style in publicistic writing. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Structure of a scientific text: logical arrangement of expressions, use of terms, structure of sentences, quotes, references, footnotes. Author’s objectivity and identitylessness. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Scientific style dictionary: terms and foreign words. Linguistic, interlinguistic and extralinguistic principles of term use. Sources of terms, databases. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | Stylistics and editing of a research paper (stylistics of introduction, talk abstracts, conclusion). | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | To read required reading texts on scientific nature, logics and argumentation of a scientific paper, as well as conducting of scientific research and description of data. • What aspects / matters/ problems of a scientific paper does the text talk about? • What can you learn from it? To select literature for the theoretical part of the paper and to create an overview of fields of theoretical reference. To create and prepare a list of references. To write theses of a Master’s thesis and to present them. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | Participation (activity, preparedness and quality of answers) in classes and quality of answers, fulfilment of tasks, theses of Master’s thesis, presentation and defence of theses of Master’s thesis. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Defence (Master’s thesis) | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | Students are able to name and characterise the most important parts of the process of creation of a Master’s thesis, potential problems and solutions, criteria for scientific work, peculiarities of language style and presentation. | ||||||||
| Skills: | Students are ready: • to conduct a Master’s thesis research in accordance with logic and criteria of scientific research; • to create a structure and a system of theoretical references of a Master’s thesis; • to write and defend a Master’s thesis. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | Students are able to orient in the field of science, position and characterise own work in accordance with requirements of the field, scientific nature criteria, laws of logic and language and presentation requirements. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Eko, U. Kā uzrakstīt diplomdarbu. – Rīga: Jāņa Rozes apgāds, 2006. | ||||||||
| 2 | Apsalons, E. Valodas lietojuma loģika. – Rīga: Zvaigzne ABC, 2012. | ||||||||
| 3 | Mārtinsone, K., Pipere, A. (2016). Pētniecība: teorija un prakse. Rīga : RaKa. - 546 lpp. | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | SAGE Research Methods | ||||||||
