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 2017 to 2020
• Semester: summer
• E-Credits: 4
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, C [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unlimited (999)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Belongs to the student work of type: bakalářská práce
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment; priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
• Guarantor: doc. PhDr. Julie Chytilová, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): doc. Ing. Tomáš Cahlík, CSc.; RNDr. Michal Červinka, Ph.D.; Jeremy Alan Garlick; doc. PhDr. Julie Chytilová, Ph.D.; Mgr. Lucie Poslušná
• Class: Courses not for incoming students
• Is pre-requisite for: JEB002

Annotation

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

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

Course completion requirements

English

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

SIS

It is important to register for the course in SIS where you can download slides from the seminars, upload the progress report and the draft of your thesis proposal, and receive feedback on them.

 

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

• April 23: 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 4: Thesis proposal. Upload the text of your thesis proposal. Use the template document thesis_proposal.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. The thesis proposal needs to include the name of your supervisor who already confirmed willingness to act as your supervisor. You will receive feedback from the teachers of the course and from the Department of Foreign Languages.

• June 28: 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 (including changes made after the feedback received at the beginning of June). The thesis proposal needs to include all the necessary information.

• September 10: Final thesis proposal in SIS. You can fine-tune your proposal during the summer.

Literature

English

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

There is no recommended literature for this course. Please see the lecture slides for relevant references.

Requirements to the exam

English

Last update: doc. PhDr. Julie Chytilová, Ph.D. (13.01.2021)

SIS

It is important to register for the course in SIS where you can download the lecture slides, upload the draft of your thesis proposal and receive feedback on it.

 

Requirements

·         Upload a draft of your thesis proposal (in the Word template form, without supervisor’s and your signature) on the course website in SIS - under the tab "Studijni mezivysledky", an icon with four blue figures (by June 20). The purpose of uploading this document is to give you an opportunity to get feedback from the course supervisor and the Department of Foreign Languages.

·         Register your topic in SIS (ask your supervisor to enter your topic in the system and assign you to the topic), then fill in the final version of your thesis proposal (by September 30).

Czech

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

SIS

It is important to register for the course in SIS where you can download slides from the seminars, upload the progress report and the draft of your thesis proposal, and receive feedback on them.

 

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

• April 23: 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 4: Thesis proposal. Upload the text of your thesis proposal. Use the template document thesis_proposal.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. The thesis proposal needs to include the name of your supervisor who already confirmed willingness to act as your supervisor. You will receive feedback from the teachers of the course and from the Department of Foreign Languages.

• June 28: 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 (including changes made after the feedback received at the beginning of June). The thesis proposal needs to include all the necessary information.

• September 10: Final thesis proposal in SIS. You can fine-tune your proposal during the summer.

Syllabus

English

Last update: doc. PhDr. Julie Chytilová, Ph.D. (22.02.2021)

To join the seminars, please us this hyperlink: https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/92856272879

Seminar 1 (February 23): Introduction and Information about Bachelor Thesis Proposal and Bachelor Thesis (Julie Chytilová, IES)

Seminar 2 (March 9): Information Resources and Citation Norms (Tomáš Pavela, CERGE-EI)

Seminar 3 (March 16): Academic Writing I (Lucie Poslušná, Department of Foreign Languages)

Seminar 4 (March 23): Academic Writing II (Lucie Poslušná, Department of Foreign Languages)

Seminar 5 (March 30): Econometrics (Barbara Pertold-Gebicka, IES)

Seminar 6 (April 6): LaTeX (Michal Červinka, IES): The seminar will be interactive, please create an account at https://www.overleaf.com/users/sign_in

Seminar 7 (April 13): Career Advice (Eliška Šerhantová, IES)

Seminar 8 (April 20): Presentation Skills (Tomáš Richter, IES and Clifford Chance)

April 27, May 4 and May 11: Individual Consultation on Bachelor Thesis Proposal (Julie Chytilová, IES: in case of interest, please contact me in advance via email)

Czech

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

Seminar 1 (February 21): Information about bachelor thesis proposal and about the course (Julie Chytilová, IES)

Seminar 2 (February 28): Discussion with recent graduates of the bachelor program (Katarína Gömöryová and Petr Čala) – choice of the topic, writing the thesis proposal and the thesis - (František Čech, IES)

Seminar 3 (March 7): Data sources – types of data and how to access them (Matěj Bajgar, IES)

Seminar 4 (March 21): Information resources – how to search for relevant related literature sources (Jonáš Klos, FSV library)

The seminar will be interactive, please bring your laptop if you have one.

Seminar 5 (March 28): Econometrics – what is it and how can it be used in the thesis (Barbara Pertold-Gebicka, IES)

Seminar 6A, students with surname starting with A-J (April 11): Discussion of ideas for the thesis proposal – team work (Matěj Bajgar, IES)

Seminar 6B, students with surname starting with K-Z (April 18): Discussion of ideas for the thesis proposal – team work (Matěj Bajgar, IES)