Seminar

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

Tutorial guidance: supervision of the dissertation / internship with a final report / project work done in direct contact with the supervisor (or supervisors) in individual sessions;

Autonomous working: In addition to the tutorial sessions, the student must carried out an autonomous work, critical and innovative.

Learning Outcomes

With this curricular unit, the advisor (or advisors) aims to supervise the student in the preparation of the dissertation/internship with report/project work, through regular meetings, face-to-face. They can, however, take other complementary forms of informal communication such as e-mail, video conferencing, skype, etc. The meetings should analyze student's difficulties and progress, validate the objectives and methodologies in use, discuss the results and documents produced. Whenever necessary, field work should be carried out to collect data.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

The student in articulation with the Advisor (or Advisors) should analyze and discuss the following topics:

- Identification of the objective(s)/problem (s) to be investigated

- Collection and analysis of the relevant bibliography

- Definition of working hypotheses or starting points

- Selection and application of appropriate research methodologies

- Data collection and organization, analysis and interpretation of results

- Production of written documents

- Other themes of relevance to the achievement of the defined objectives.

Head Lecturer(s)

Nuno Ganho Gomes da Silva

Isabel Maria Rodrigues de Paiva

Albano Augusto Figueiredo Rodrigues

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Presentation and discussion of students research results): 100.0%

Bibliography

Bibliografia Geral:

Knight, J. (2018). Research Methods in Physical Geography. Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom, 416p.

Oliveira, Luís Adriano (2011). Dissertação e Tese em Ciência e Tecnologia Segundo Bolonha. Lisboa: LIDEL.

Reis, Felipa Lopes dos (2010). Como Elaborar uma Dissertação de Mestrado segundo Bolonha. Lisboa: Pactor.

Soares, A. (2014). Geoestatística para as Ciências da Terra e do Ambiente. IST - Instituto Superior Técnico (ed.), 3.ª Ed., 232p.

Bibliografia específica:

A bibliografia específica depende de cada um dos temas a desenvolver pelos alunos. / The specific bibliography varies according to the research topics chosen by students for their theses.