Syllabus
Registration via LPIS
Day | Date | Time | Room |
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Wednesday | 06/15/22 | 09:00 AM - 05:00 PM | Online-Einheit |
Monday | 06/20/22 | 09:00 AM - 05:00 PM | Online-Einheit |
Tuesday | 06/21/22 | 09:00 AM - 05:00 PM | Online-Einheit |
Wednesday | 06/22/22 | 09:00 AM - 05:00 PM | Online-Einheit |
Thursday | 06/23/22 | 09:00 AM - 05:00 PM | Online-Einheit |
Friday | 06/24/22 | 09:00 AM - 05:00 PM | Online-Einheit |
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)
The dates and the individual time-slots for the final presentation will take place from Mid-June till End of June 2022. The exact dates/time-slots will be announced by the End of April 2022.
Assessment will be based upon:
- Quality of submitted presentation slides (20%)
- Proposal presentation (40%)
- Final presentation (40%)
The dates and the individual time-slots for the final presentation will take place from Mid-June till End of June 2022. The exact dates/time-slots will be announced by the End of April 2022.
kurt.hornik@wu.ac.at, rainer.jankowitsch@wu.ac.at, stefan.pichler@wu.ac.at
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