Bachelor's Thesis Seminar I - JEB001

• Title: Bachelor's Thesis Seminar I
• Guaranteed by: Institute of Economic Studies (23-IES)
• Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
• Actual: from 2021
• Semester: summer
• E-Credits: 4
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, C [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (999)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Is provided by: JEB154
• Belongs to the student work of type: bakalářská práce
• Note: enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: doc. PhDr. Julie Chytilová, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): Matěj Bajgar, D.Phil.; PhDr. František Čech, Ph.D.; doc. PhDr. Julie Chytilová, Ph.D.
• Class: Courses not for incoming students
• Is pre-requisite for: JEB002

Annotation

The main aim of the course is to help students to find the topic of their bachelor thesis and to write their thesis proposal.

Last update: Chytilová Julie, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (12.01.2023)

Requirements to the exam

SIS

It is important to register for the course in SIS where you can download slides from the seminars, upload the progress report and receive feedback on it.

 

Requirements (each of the points below has to be fulfilled in order to get a pass from the course)

• May 3: Progress report. Upload a document summarizing your work on the thesis proposal so far. Use the template document progress_report.doc which is available for download in SIS. Upload the document in SIS - under the tab "Studijni mezivysledky/Study group roster", an icon with four blue figures. You will receive feedback from the teachers of the course.
• June 30: Registration of the topic in SIS. Ask your supervisor to enter your topic in the system and assign you to the topic, then fill in the text of your thesis proposal with all the required information.
• September 6: Final thesis proposal in SIS. You can fine-tune your proposal during the summer. 

 

Last update: Chytilová Julie, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (28.01.2026)

Syllabus

Seminar 1 (February 24): Information about bachelor thesis proposal and about the course (Julie Chytilová, IES)

Seminar 2 (March 3): Data sources – types of data and how to access them (Matěj Bajgar, IES)

Seminar 3 (March 10): Discussion of ideas for the thesis proposal – team work (Matěj Bajgar, IES)

Seminar 4 (March 17): Discussion with recent graduates of the bachelor program (Anna Jůzová and Adam Horáček) – choice of the topic, writing the thesis proposal and the thesis - (František Čech, IES)

Seminar 5 (March 24): Econometrics – what is it and how can it be used in the thesis (Barbara Pertold-Gebicka, IES)

Seminar 6 (March 31): Overleaf, AI tools (Jiří Kukačka, IES)

Seminar 7 (April 14): Individual consultations, first-come first-serve

Seminar 8 (April 21): Individual consultations, first-come first-serve

Important hyperlinks

Information governing content-related, formal and technical essentials concerning elaboration and submission of final theses: https://fsv.cuni.cz/opatreni-dekanky-c-16/2018

Templates of the bachelor thesis for Word and LaTeX are available at the bottom of this website: https://fsv.cuni.cz/opatreni-dekanky-c-16/2018

Last update: Chytilová Julie, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (28.01.2026)