Course detail

Diploma Project Seminar

FP-BpdsPAcad. year: 2020/2021

The course is intended for students to deepen their knowledge and acquire skills in the area of professional writing as needed for completing bachelors’ theses. Great attention is paid to gathering information and investigating professional literature, conducting and writing up a research, and to citing quotations according to the valid standards. It will teach them how to plan and carry out the whole process of bachelor’s thesis writing, and will make them familiar with the basic guidelines for completing the bachelor’s thesis as far as level of formality and content requirements are concerned. The course will provide students with current methodology and theory in the area and will teach them how to deliver an effective presentation of their work with confidence.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

4

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. Ing. Vít Chlebovský, Ph.D.

Department

Institute of Management (ÚM)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Having attended the course, students will be able to write a compact professional text with a logical structure where they will apply the theory learned to solving a selected problem from the practice.

Prerequisites

The course requires previous knowledge acquired throughout the university study and the ability to apply it to solving selected problems.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

The course is taught through seminars, where students are learning different methods of creating thesis.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

The graded credit is subject to the following conditions:
A written project – part of the bachelor’s thesis (outlining the thesis and its goals, methodology of solving the problem and the completing of the theoretical part). Presentation aimed at defending of the completed project.
The condition for graded credit is timeliness, completeness and quality of materials

Course curriculum

Learning outcomes of the course unit The aim of the course is to develop students' knowledge and skills in the field of written professional expression, which should result in the writing of bachelor thesis. Learning outcomes of the course unit The knowledge and the ability to write a comprehensive technical text in which the students in the logical structure apply the theoretical knowledge to solve a particular problem from the practice.
The course is focused on the elaboration of the bachelor thesis according to the stated goals, content and methods of the solution. On the basis of acquired theoretical knowledge, students solve specific practical problems from practice. It also determines the conditions of realization and outlines the economic and extra-economic benefits. Students are able to analyze and systematically collect the data and information needed to solve the problem. And on the basis of these analyzes, propose comprehensive solutions that can be used in practice.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

The aim of the course is to provide students with necessary knowledge and skills in the area of professional writing as needed for completing the bachelor’s thesis.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Parts of the bachelor’s thesis to be completed: outlining the problem, setting the objectives, determining the methods and procedure. Recent theoretical information in the field.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Doporučená literatura vedoucím bakalářské práce
ISO norma 690

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme BAK-PM Bachelor's 3 year of study, winter semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Exercise

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Vít Chlebovský, Ph.D.