Bachelor 2025/2026

Research Seminar

ID 883539

Type: Compulsory course (Political Science and World Politics)

Delivered by: Department of Political Science and International Affairs

Where: Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences

When: 2 year, 1-4 module

Open to: students of one campus

Instructors: Yury Kabanov, Барыкин Ярослав Андреевич

Language: English

ECTS credits: 3

Contact hours: 44

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The course is designed as a series of practical seminars aimed at preparing students for academic activities, related to their term papers, final theses, and academic research in general. During the courses students learn what research is, how to critically analyze academic literature, how to design research (using various methodological approaches), and how to write an academic paper. Moreover the course covers modern approaches and applications that help students fulfil their research tasks.