2024

Seminar on the Development of Thesis I in Nursing

Name: Seminar on the Development of Thesis I in Nursing
Code: ENF13713D
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area: Nursing

Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese
Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Presentation

This UC aims to provide, a space for reflection and debate on recent or ongoing research in Nursing.

Sustainable Development Goals

Learning Goals

• To provide a space for reflection and debate on recent or ongoing research in Nursing;
• To contribute to a transdisciplinary view of current research in nursing, focusing on scientific issues, research approaches and models, methodologies and techniques, applications and impacts on society;
• To provide clues and theoretical-methodological references for the work leading to individual theses;
• To train skills to elaborate questions, scientific discussion and argumentation, contributing to the reinforcement of critical analysis, synthesis of ideas and communication with peers, academic community and society;
• 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 Nursing:
a. Guest speaker sessions
b. Sessions co-organized by doctoral students
2. Winter School I:
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%

Teaching Staff (2023/2024 )