Master´s Thesis Seminar II - (Summer Semester) - JEM002

• Anglický název: Master´s Thesis Seminar II - (Summer Semester)
• Zajišťuje: Institut ekonomických studií (23-IES)
• Fakulta: Fakulta sociálních věd
• Platnost: od 2010 do 2011
• Semestr: letní
• E-Kredity: 3
• Způsob provedení zkoušky: letní s.:
• Rozsah, examinace: letní s.:0/2, Z [HT]
• Počet míst: neurčen / neomezen (neurčen)
• Minimální obsazenost: neomezen
• 4EU+: ne
• Virtuální mobilita / počet míst pro virtuální mobilitu: ne
• Stav předmětu: vyučován
• Jazyk výuky: čeština
• Způsob výuky: prezenční
• Způsob výuky: prezenční
• Patří ke studentské práci typu: diplomová práce
• Další informace: http://ies.fsv.cuni.cz/index.php?module=sylab&action=sylab&id_sylab=49&lng=cs_CZ
• Poznámka: předmět je možno zapsat mimo plán; povolen pro zápis po webu
• Garant: prof. Ing. Michal Mejstřík, CSc.; prof. PhDr. Tomáš Havránek, Ph.D.
• Vyučující: prof. PhDr. Tomáš Havránek, Ph.D.; prof. Ing. Michal Mejstřík, CSc.
• Třída: Courses not for incoming students; Nekontrolovat_RL

Anotace

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Poslední úprava: doc. PhDr. Zuzana Havránková, Ph.D. (24.10.2019)

Kurz je určen studentům, kteří dokončují diplomovou práci.

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Poslední úprava: doc. PhDr. Zuzana Havránková, Ph.D. (13.02.2019)

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

Literatura

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Poslední úprava: 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.

Požadavky ke zkoušce

Poslední úprava: doc. PhDr. Zuzana Havránková, Ph.D. (13.10.2021)

Check regularly "yymmdd_jem002" file (log-in to see the file), where your fulfilled requirements are noted (including students of JEM170 and JMMZ020). To finish the course you must fulfill:

1. Attendance: You must attend all three seminars.

You must be online-present at all 3 seminars (which applies to students studying abroad as well). The exact dates of your seminar will be specified in the file "seminars_dates" (log-in to see the file). If you cannot attend your seminars at specified date, you can switch with your colleague but need to inform us in advance. 

The seminars are organised as individual consultations on the first come, first served basis, and start at 4.30 pm. This semester the seminars will be held online via MS Teams (use the following link to join the team: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/team/19%3a6034b6d648a648f5b789bdf0fd963553%40thread.tacv2/conversations?groupId=3b0195ca-0c6a-431a-8b51-75cf50b0ad97&tenantId=e09276da-f934-4086-bf08-8816a20414a2). Use your university account to log in (log with your student ID number as, for example, [e-mail] and use your CAS password). When you log in at the time of the seminar (but not before 4.15PM on Tuesday) go to the "Posts" section of the team and write a post indicating whom you would like to consult with: "dr. Schwarz" or "doc. Havranek". In general, dr. Schwarz handles finance topics, doc. Havranek handles economics topics, and you are required to talk to both during the semester. Your posts in MS Teams will be sorted by time, so you will always see how many students are in the queue ahead of you. When it's your turn, the respective teacher will initiate a video call with you. Note that there will be no written progress reports this year; all consultations will be held by video call at the time of the seminars.

In short, 1) first log in to MS Teams to MA thesis seminar team, 2) at the beginning of the seminar, post whom you want to talk to, 3) wait till the teacher calls you.

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 above 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 given deadlines: deadline of January 5 is for those finishing their studies in January 2021, deadline of May 4 is for those finishing their studies in June 2021, and deadline of July 27 is for those finishing studies during the prolonged examination period in September 2021. Upload your final thesis into SIS and send it to us to get credits for the seminar (include no. of characters of the main body of the thesis into your email).

Note that the deadlines are the latest dates 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: JEM002 Thesis (Yoursurname).
• When submitting your final thesis for seminars, save the file as yoursurname_thesis_final.pdf. Subject of the e-mail must be: JEM002 Final Thesis (Yoursurname). 
• When submitting your handout for the third seminar, save the file as yoursurname_handout.pdf. Subject of the e-mail must be: JEM002 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 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 Bellemare (2020) above. 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 above). 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. For the winter semester 2020/2021, final master's exams including thesis defense will be held on February 3, 2021. For the summer semester 2020/2021, the exams will be held on June 16, 2021, and for the prolonged summer period on September 15, 2021. Time schedule will be published one week before exam. For information on thesis defense, read IES directors' Guidelines.

Sylabus

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Poslední úprava: doc. PhDr. Zuzana Havránková, Ph.D. (11.02.2020)

Students are distributed into 3 or 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 - preparation for thesis defense. Walk us through your handout for defense (see example above).

Požadavky k zápisu

Poslední úprava: doc. PhDr. Zuzana Havránková, Ph.D. (12.09.2014)

An obligatory prerequisite to register for JEM002 is passing JEM001.