Dissertation Project

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

Tutorial supervision including the clarification of the course contents and the allocation of tasks and practical assignments corresponding to each component required for the dissertation project.

Learning Outcomes

This course unit is dedicated to drafting the dissertation project that will be publicly defended at the end of the semester. Students are expected to apply the skills acquired in the course unit Research Methodologies in Arts. They should also specify the subject of their PhD dissertation, define their proposed goals, establish the research methodologies to be adopted, and write the corresponding state of the art. This will help describe the bibliography to be used as the starting point for the dissertation, highlight the originality of the students’ research and forecast some of its possible conclusions.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

- Delimitation of the subject of the PhD dissertation;

- Definition of the goals in the framework of Arts research and Art studies in particular;

- Writing of the state of the art and establishment of the basic and general support bibliography;

- Detailed description of the research to be developed;

- Establishment of the methodology to be adopted depending on the nature of the dissertation;

- Development of the work schedule.

Head Lecturer(s)

Fernando Matos de Oliveira

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Project: 100.0%

Bibliography

A bibliografia de consulta para a elaboração do projeto de tese tem fundamentalmente a ver com o tema desse projeto e a investigação a desenvolver, razão pela qual não é possível especificá-la numa ficha comum de unidade curricular./ The bibliography of reference for drafting the dissertation project is fundamentally related to the project’s subject and the research to be developed. Thus, it cannot be listed in a common course unit sheet.