Research Seminar

Recommended Prerequisites

NA

Teaching Methods

The teaching method is this merely expository by the lecturers, students must make a final work on one of the themes versed during the seminars. This work is like a thesis project and must in the end be presented and defended before the teacher and classmates.

Learning Outcomes

This course will consist of a series of lectures given by the professor of the Master that may be available to guide students in their thesis. These lectures aim to give students a set of information that will allow to address some issues which, because of their size, do not justify having its own autonomy to constitute a curricular unit and can be used by students as thesis topic.

The main objective of this course is to prepare students for their master's thesis and is expected to constitute the first part of it.

At the end of the course students should be state of the art connoisseurs of the subject in which they wish to develop their thesis, they planned it and be knowledgeable of scientific work and writing texts of this nature.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Several seminars on topics such as: stretching on research, how to write a scientific document, preparation of literature reviews and tools that may have an interest in developing a thesis.

Besidades classes, students will be in contact with the professors who will train them in the second semester.

Head Lecturer(s)

Cristóvão Silva

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Project: 100.0%

Bibliography

Oliveira, L.A. (2012) Dissertação e Tese em Ciência e Tecnologia segundo Bolonha (2.ª ed.), Lidel.

Oliveira, M.C.; Silva, C.; Oliveira, L.A. (2013) Modelo para preparação do Relatório Final e do Resumo da Tese de Mestrado.

Oliveira; L.A. (2013), Ética em Investigação Científica, Lidel.