Course detail

Academic Work Proseminar

FA-SAK-TEAcad. year: 2025/2026

Academic Work Proseminar will provide students with an introduction to the principles of professional activity in the field of research and the basics of professional writing and presentation of the results of scientific work with regard to its ethical dimension. Emphasis is placed on expert information sources with emphasis on adherence to copyright requirements. Practical surveys and analyses will also be part of the seminar. The seminar is intended to create a theoretical basis for the practical design phase and practice.
Students will be led to the profiling of their own research and their own areas of interest, to the preparation and processing of analytical and synthetic parts of scientific work, to critical thinking and written and verbal presentation of scientific results and their discussion.

Language of instruction

English

Number of ECTS credits

4

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Entry knowledge

Not applicable.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Students are evaluated on the basis of a submitted paper and its presentation in the final seminar. Students submit the text according to the specific assignment; 80% of the total mark consists of written work, 20% of its presentation. 

Aims

Not applicable.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

GROAT, Linda N; WANG, David. Architectural research methods. Hoboken: Wiley, 2013. ISBN 978-0-470-90855-6. (EN)
LUCAS, R. Research methods for architecture. Laurence King Publishing, 2016. (EN)
WALLWORK, Adrian. English for Writing Research Papers. Springer Science + Business Media, 2011. ISBN 1441979212. (EN)

Recommended reading

ILYIN, Natalia. Writing for the Design Mind. Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019. ISBN: 978-1350034976. (EN)
LEA, Diana; BULL, Victoria; WEBB, Suzanne; DUNCAN, Robert. Oxford learner's dictionary of academic English. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0-19-433350-4. (EN)
MCCARTHY, Michael; O'DELL, Felicity. Academic vocabulary in use. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-521-68939-7. (EN)

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme NE_A+U Master's 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Seminar

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer