Duration
Number of credits
| Master in multilingual communication (120 ECTS) (Digital media education) | 20 crédits |
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
English language
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
Description of the teaching unit:
This course is designed to help the student define a dissertation project.
Table of contents:
- The different types of dissertation (including action research);
- The state of the art - Introduction to documentary research;
- Defining a problematic and a research question;
- Methodological aspects
- Defining a plan;
- Practice: Drafting the dissertation project.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
At the end of the course, the student will be able...
- develop a research problem and a research question (or an action project, in the framework of an action research);
- define the state of the art and show how the question addressed (or the action-research project) is relevant to it;
- develop a relevant and realistic methodology for addressing the issue (or conducting the project, in the case of action research);
- define the plan and structure of the master thesis.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Pre-requisite: Block 1 course.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Oral lectures with student note-taking; seminar exchanges; workshops; individual follow-up sessions.
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Face-to-face course
Additional information:
Face-to-face courses (unless adaptations need to be made due to the sanitary context).
Recommended or required readings
Course materials available on eCampus.
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- Remote
written exam
Written work / report
Additional information:
The evaluation of the course will be based on an individual assignment in which the student will detail his/her master thesis project (type of master thesis, problematic and research question/action research project, state of the art, method, plan).
Work placement(s)
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
Contacts
Ingrid.Mayeur@uliege.be