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Methodology Seminar is mandatory for TEMA students. It is organized as tutorial - offering supervision of research for master thesis.
In the second semester, students further develop their master projects. Students make first round of systematic source and data collection (with respect to their accessibility) and proceed with their primary analysis. Initial results are reported to supervisors. Secondary literature is studied. Theoretical and methodological background is deepened and broadened, and adjusted toward the individual themes. Students try to apply theoretical knowledge on their themes. Research questions are formulated more precisely. Students are continuously exercised in obeying proper academic rules (quotations, etc.) and genre rules (writing abstract, summary, review, etc.). By the end of the semester students are securely set up on the way so as to succesfully continue – and eventually to finalize – their basic research during Summer holidays and the third semester.
By the end of the second semester students submit coherent text of 30 – 40 pages, draft of the chapters of their MA thesis.