Bachelor´s Thesis Seminar I - JEB154

• Title: Bachelor´s Thesis Seminar I
• Guaranteed by: Institute of Economic Studies (23-IES)
• Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
• Actual: from 2022
• Semester: summer
• E-Credits: 6
• 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
• 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: JEB155

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 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 20: 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 1: 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.
• June 29: 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 7: Final thesis proposal in SIS. You can fine-tune your proposal during the summer.

 

Last update: Chytilová Julie, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (25.01.2025)

Syllabus

Seminar 1 (February 18): Information about bachelor thesis proposal and about the course (Julie Chytilová, IES)

Seminar 2 (February 25): Discussion with recent graduates of the bachelor program (Anna Jůzová and Tomáš Burian) – choice of the topic, writing the thesis proposal and the thesis - (František Čech, IES)

Seminar 3 (March 4): Data sources – types of data and how to access them (Matěj Bajgar, IES)

Seminar 4 (March 11): Information resources – how to search for relevant related literature sources (Kateřina Turková, FSV library)

Seminar 5 (March 18): Econometrics – what is it and how can it be used in the thesis (Barbara Pertold-Gebicka, IES)

Seminar 6 (March 25): AI tools (Michal Červinka and Jiří Kukačka, IES)

Seminar 7A, students with surname starting with A-J (April 8): Discussion of ideas for the thesis proposal – team work (Matěj Bajgar, IES)

Seminar 7B, students with surname starting with K-Z (April 15): Discussion of ideas for the thesis proposal – team work (Matěj Bajgar, IES)

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. (25.01.2025)