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Instructors: Univ-Prof. Dr. Arne Niemann
Event type:
Seminar
Displayed in timetable as:
Sem EU politics
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
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Priority scheme: Senatsrichtlinie
Requirements / organisational issues:
Organizational issues:
- Attendance in class is obligatory
- Task assignment and presentation in the second part of the seminar
++++This seminar will be held digitally in a synchronous fashion++++
Contents:
This seminar is supposed to provide Europamaster students with some basic insights that are necessary and helpful for writing their MA thesis in the fourth semester of the MA in European Studies. The two main (interlinked) aspects that will particularly be dealt with in this course are (1) the research question (what constitutes a relevant and salient research question in the social sciences broadly interpreted?), and (2) the research plan (what elements should a convincing research plan/expose contain?). Hence, this course will guide you on the first steps towards your MA thesis.
The course is composed of a (small) number of in-class seminar sessions and the possibility for individual consultations. In order to pass the course students have to submit a an expose/research plan containing their (potential) research question, a short literature review (state of the art), the value added of the project, and some reflection in terms of how it can be operationalised.
Recommended reading list:
Mishkin, Frederic S. (2013), The Economics of Money, Banking, and Financial Markets, Bosten et al.: Pearson.
Additional information:
The seminar takes the perspective of macroeconomics. Insofar as economic models involve mathematic formulations and derivations, students should expect to encounter some formulas in class and be able to handle these. But this does not imply that math is seen as an end in itself. Rather, grasping the logic underlying the models is seen as essential.
Digital teaching:
This seminar will be held digitally in a synchronous fashion
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