Research Seminar

Code: LLT11247M

9 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/234 hours

Scientific Area: Literature

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese

Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Presentation

This course aims to develop and implement, for each student, his/her research project, materialized in the production of a dissertation.

Sustainable Development Goals

Educação de qualidade - Assegurar a educação inclusiva, e equitativa e de qualidade, e promover oportunidades de aprendizagem ao longo da vida para todos.

Learning Goals

This course aims to develop and implement, for each of the students, their research project, materializing in the production of a dissertation.
Thus, its goals are:
. The development of general scientific research skills of each trainee, relating to conception, adaptation and realization of his project;
. The deepening of skills and learning developed in the area of each research project, in order to strengthen the respective thematic framework, theoretical and methodological;
. The establishment of strict criteria of academic research, its practices and its methods, set to the quality academic standards of ethics;
. The acquisition of practical and critical domain of specific methodological capabilities, in order to empower the progressive research undertaken by each student;
. The development of communication skills of students, particularly those relating to argumentation and debate.

Given the very specific nature of this course, each student will be set to an individualized program of training, adapted to his project and according to the theme and scope of each course of investigation.

Teaching Methods

Presentation and discussion of scientific content. Constant monitoring methodology, which points to some steps and forms required:
1. Adjustment and implementation of the project and the timeline previously agreed. Circumscription of the theme, structure and scope of the thesis, and the main lines of its development and questioning.
2. Theoretical and methodological, precise and rigorous,orientation.
3. Guidance and bibliographic general and specific selection. Pratical indications, if necessary, on forms, locations and procedures for bibliographic and / or another.
4. Monitoring research and advances in acquisition of information.
5. Continued guidance of the progress of the activity of writing. Clarification on Standards Bibliographic practical use.
6. Reading, formative assessment, comments and recommendations on the issue of utterances produced.
7. Clarification of doubts, gaps or informational, structural, logical or methodological deviations.