Syllabus
Title
6177 Y2CO QFin Master Thesis Seminar
Instructors
Univ.Prof. Dr. Kurt Hornik, Univ.Prof. Dr. Stefan Pichler, Univ.Prof. Dr. Rainer Jankowitsch
Type
FS
Weekly hours
2
Language of instruction
Englisch
Registration
02/01/21 to 02/21/21
Registration via LPIS
Registration via LPIS
Notes to the course
Subject(s) Master Programs
Dates
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Within this course, students will write their master thesis.
They will have to perform certain tasks like
- submitting a proposal and discussing it with the course instructors
- doing an interim presetation and
- presenting the main findings of their theses to the course instructors and their colleagues.
After completing the course students will be able to:
- define a research question after having identified a specific problem
- independently perform a scientific problem solving process
- adopt quantitative methods to the research question
- evaluate, to interpret and to discuss relevant datasets
- give an overview of actual scientific knowledge on the area of research.
Furthermore, after completing the course students will be able to:
- organize and to structure information and their own ideas
- integrate the information obtained before into a coherent approach
- breakdown a global problem into partial steps and milestones and to work on it according to a project schedule
- enhance knowledge and information according to a specific target group.
- gather, to assess and to critically summerize the relevant literature
- get to know basic methods of scientific work and to adopt it on the research question chosen appropriate to the level of a master thesis
Full attendance is compulsory, i.e., students should attend at least 75% of all lectures.
- Preliminary discussion (in the fall term)
- Individual meetings with students (fall term; details scheduled to be distributed before)
- Final presentations (at the end of the spring term)
Assessment will be based upon:
- Quality of submitted presentation slides (20%)
- Proposal presentation (40%)
- Final presentation (40%)
Successful completion of at least 42 ECTS credits from the first year compulsory common courses.
kurt.hornik@wu.ac.at, rainer.jankowitsch@wu.ac.at, stefan.pichler@wu.ac.at
Last edited: 2020-11-11
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