Research Seminar "Qualitative Methods"

2025/2026

Учебный год

ENG

Обучение ведется на английском языке

12

Кредиты

Кто читает:

Департамент социологии

Статус:

Курс по выбору

Когда читается:

2-й курс, 1-3 модуль

Преподаватели

Рой Чоудхури Арнаб

Шамс Сафи

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The course on master thesis writing is designed to provide students with a thoughtful understanding of what are the main steps and procedures of social research and how they are linked to the different parts of master thesis.

Learning Objectives

• To have practical skills in conducting social research and writing master thesis

Expected Learning Outcomes

• be able to conduct analysis according to research questing
• be able to find and review papers on the subject of MA thesis
• be able to interpret data and draw conclusions
• be able to provide a nice visualization
• have skills in writing research papers and master thesis
• know basic principles of academic writing
• know the basic principles of academic ethics
• know the rules of writing master thesis
• to be able to put forward correct research question and identify the novelty of the MA thesis
• to improve formulations of theses' topics
• to to develop research design
• to improve thesis synopsis based on feedback
• to improve the introduction section of the thesis
• to improve the literature review section
• to improve the data and methods section of the thesis
• to improve preliminary researech results
• to get feedback to the draft thesis

Course Contents

• Structure of the master thesis
• Introduction
• Literature review
• Data and methods
• Results
• Discussion and conclusion
• Visualization
• Group discussion of topics
• Design of research
• Synopsis defence
• Introduction
• Literature Review
• Data and methods
• Preliminary results
• Pre-defence

Assessment Elements

• In-class activity
  Students should actively participate in discussing their own and their classmates' work in progress during seminars.
• Thesis pre-defence
  Students should pre-defend their MA theses.
• Thesis presentation
  Students should give in-class presentation of their theses.
• In-class activity
• Draft thesis
  Studentsshould submit complete drafts of their theses.
• In-class activity
  Students should actively participate in discussing their own and their classmates' work in progress.

Interim Assessment

• 2025/2026 3rd module
  0.1 * Draft thesis + 0.05 * In-class activity + 0.05 * In-class activity + 0.1 * In-class activity + 0.4 * Thesis pre-defence + 0.3 * Thesis presentation

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• Berg, B. L. . (DE-588)140800271, (DE-576)165756063. (2009). Qualitative research methods for the social sciences / Bruce L. Berg. Allyn and Bacon.
• Commentary for academic writing for graduate students : essential tasks and skills, Swales, J. M., 2020
• Contemporary academic writing. A comprehensive course for students in higher education : Course book, Sowton, C., 2016
• How to fix your academic writing trouble : a practical guide, Mewburn, I., 2019
• How to write a lot : a practical guide to productive academic writing, Silvia, P. J., 2019
• Paul J. Silvia. (2019). How to Write a Lot : A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing: Vol. Second edition. APA LifeTools.
• Qualitative research methods for the social sciences, Berg, B. L., 2012
• Seductive academic writing, Freeman, D., 2018
• Taylor, S. J., DeVault, M. L., & Bogdan, R. (2016). Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods : A Guidebook and Resource (Vol. 4th edition). Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1061324
• The SAGE encyclopedia of qualitative research methods. Vol.1: ., , 2008
• Write Here, Right Now : An Interactive Introduction to Academic Writing and Research. (2018). Place of publication not identified: publisher not identified. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsotl&AN=edsotl.OTLid0000681
• Writing research papers from essay to research paper : student book, Zemach, D. E., 2011
• Слуднева, Л. В. The Basics of Academic Writing : учебное пособие / Л. В. Слуднева. — Иркутск : ИрГУПС, 2022. — 88 с. — Текст : электронный // Лань : электронно-библиотечная система. — URL: https://e.lanbook.com/book/342107 (дата обращения: 00.00.0000). — Режим доступа: для авториз. пользователей.

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• Core concepts in data analysis: summarization, correlation and visualization, Mirkin, B., 2011
• Rahlf, T. (2017). Data Visualisation with R : 100 Examples. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1377904
• Yuk, M., & Diamond, S. (2014). Data Visualization For Dummies. Hoboken, NJ: For Dummies. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=685381

Authors

• DESIATOVA MARIIA IVANOVNA
• Frelikh KRISTIAN
• Shams Safi
• Di Puppo Lili
• ALMAKAEVA ANNA Mikhailovna
• Roi Choudkhuri ARNAB
• Fabrikant Margarita Saulovna