Master Thesis Seminar II - Winter Semester - JEM125

• Title: Master's Thesis Seminar II - (Winter Semester)
• Guaranteed by: Institute of Economic Studies (23-IES)
• Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
• Actual: from 2013 to 2013
• Semester: winter
• E-Credits: 6
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/2, C [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unlimited (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: Czech
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Additional information: http://ies.fsv.cuni.cz/en/syllab/JEM125
• 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: prof. Ing. Michal Mejstřík, CSc.; prof. PhDr. Tomáš Havránek, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): prof. PhDr. Tomáš Havránek, Ph.D.; doc. PhDr. Zuzana Havránková, Ph.D.
• Pre-requisite : JEM124
• Interchangeability : JEM002
• Is interchangeable with: JEM002

Annotation

Last update: doc. PhDr. Zuzana Havránková, Ph.D. (20.02.2014)

The course is dedicated to students finalizing their diploma thesis in the winter semester. The first two seminars are held as individual consultations with the teacher, the third seminar serves as preparation for the thesis defense.

Literature

Last update: doc. PhDr. Zuzana Havránková, Ph.D. (20.02.2014)

McCloskey, D. (1999). Economical Writing. Waveland; 2nd edition.
Strunk, W. & E. B. White (2000). The Elements of Style. Longman; 4th edition.
Williams, J. M. (2010). Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace. Longman; 10th edition.

Requirements to the exam

Last update: doc. PhDr. Zuzana Havránková, Ph.D. (18.06.2014)

Check regularly yymmdd_jem125 file, where your fulfilled requirements are noted. To finish the course you must fulfill:

1. Attendance: You must attend all three seminars.

You must come to all 3 seminars. If you study abroad for the entire semester, you are free from this requirement, but you still have to send us details on your progress (several paragraphs; please be concrete) on the day of the seminar. The exact dates of your seminar will be specified in the file "seminar_dates". If you cannot attend your seminars at specified date, you can switch with your colleague but need to inform us in advance.

2. Handout: For the third seminar, you must prepare an outline for your defense and send it to us at least a day in advance.

You must prepare an outline for your thesis defense and present it to the teacher. You should address the importance of your topic, settings of the problem and hypotheses, methodological background and most of all, stress the original contribution. Send the handout one day in advance. An example can be found below under "3_IES_handout". You should take three copies of the handout with you to the defense.

3. Final thesis: You must finish your thesis till January 5 and send it to us (include no. of characters of the main body of the thesis into your email).

Note that January 5 is the latest date you need to hand in your thesis (Czech/Slovak works aim for at least 60 standard pages, 108ths. characters including spaces; English works for at least 50 standard pages, 90ths. characters including spaces, both excluding abstract, proposal, references, and appendices). Since you are not eligible for credits before you fulfill the requirement of uploading your final thesis into SIS and sending it to us by email, manage your work to be able to get your credits in time. 

Rules of communication. All e-mails should be send to all of the following addresses: [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail].

• When submitting your thesis for seminars, save the file as yoursurname_thesis.pdf. Subject of the e-mail must be: JEM125 Thesis (Yoursurname). 
• When submitting your handout for the third seminar, save the file as yoursurname_handout.pdf. Subject of the e-mail must be: JEM125 Handout (Yoursurname).

Always send the current version of your thesis (and handout) in advance, before the seminar starts. A few days after the deadline an xls file will be published on this webpage to indicate students that passed the requirement.

You are eligible for credits only if you fulfill all the course requirements. Always check for official deadlines in current academic year on FSV web.

Please, take your time and go through a few good theses (= awarded by the Dean) which you can find on the website -- this is the best inspiration for you and it will answer a lot of your questions. Read the documents "Academic Writing" and "Handbook" below. Your thesis will be evaluated according to its quality, not the number of pages, but you have to fulfill the minimum requirements of the Faculty (50 standard pages from the Introduction to the Conclusion for theses written in English). If you think about writing your thesis in LaTeX, there is a template created specifically for the IES (attached below). Empirically there is a significant correlation between the usage of LaTeX and the final grade.

For information on final examination for master's degree, see this website.

Syllabus

Last update: doc. PhDr. Zuzana Havránková, Ph.D. (20.02.2014)

Students are distributed into 4 groups according to the file "seminars_dates", each student is assigned three specific dates for seminars to attend. For each seminar please prepare a short (5 minutes) but concrete talk. Content of the seminar:

1. seminar - your progress since you sent us the first part of your thesis, discussion of methodology.
2. seminar - discussion of your results. What have you done since the last seminar?
3. seminar - thesis defense simulation; prepare a handout (see below).

Registration requirements

Last update: doc. PhDr. Zuzana Havránková, Ph.D. (20.02.2014)

An obligatory prerequisite to register for JEM125 is passing either JEM001 or JEM124.