2024
Thesis II Development Seminar in Health and Welbeing Sciences
Name: Thesis II Development Seminar in Health and Welbeing Sciences
Code: CMS13788D
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area:
Health Sciences
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese
Presentation
The UC aims, to provide a space for reflection and debate on recent or ongoing research in the area of Health Sciences and Welbeing
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
The course aims is to solidify the objectives acquired in Seminar I, in a perspective of greater autonomy of the doctoral students, in the work development leading to their thesis. The specific objectives of Seminar II are:
• To deep reflection and debate on recent or ongoing research in health and well-being sciences;
• To provide clues and theoretical-methodological references for the work leading to individual theses;
• To develop argumentation and scientific communication skills, either through participation in seminar sessions presented by invited speakers, or through the presentation of the work to be elaborated in the scope of the thesis construction.
• To deep reflection and debate on recent or ongoing research in health and well-being sciences;
• To provide clues and theoretical-methodological references for the work leading to individual theses;
• To develop argumentation and scientific communication skills, either through participation in seminar sessions presented by invited speakers, or through the presentation of the work to be elaborated in the scope of the thesis construction.
Contents
1. Cycle of seminars or lectures on current research in health and welbeing sciences:
a. Guest speaker sessions
b. Sessions co-organized by doctoral students
a. Winter School II:
a. Presentation, reflection and debate about the state of the art of doctoral research subjects;
b. Discussion of doctoral research progress reports.
a. Guest speaker sessions
b. Sessions co-organized by doctoral students
a. Winter School II:
a. Presentation, reflection and debate about the state of the art of doctoral research subjects;
b. Discussion of doctoral research progress reports.
Teaching Methods
The teaching methodology consists essentially of participating in seminar sessions presented by teachers and researchers and organized by the doctoral students themselves, covering the area of research that they develop. These seminars are not only expositive in nature, but seek to promote interaction and discussion of the topics addressed among the participants.
The assessment of learning (continuous and exam) consists in a paper synthesizing each seminar content, enriched with the respective critical appraisal, as well as resulting from the public presentation evaluation, as well as the written document of the thesis progress report:
a. 1 summary report of the seminar sessions: 25%
b. 1 Thesis progress report: 50%
c. Oral presentation of the work: 25%
The assessment of learning (continuous and exam) consists in a paper synthesizing each seminar content, enriched with the respective critical appraisal, as well as resulting from the public presentation evaluation, as well as the written document of the thesis progress report:
a. 1 summary report of the seminar sessions: 25%
b. 1 Thesis progress report: 50%
c. Oral presentation of the work: 25%
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