Postgraduate seminar

2022/2023

Academic Year

RUS

Instruction in Russian

6

ECTS credits

Delivered by:

School of Politics and Governance

Type:

Compulsory course

When:

1 year, 1 semester

Программа дисциплины

Аннотация

The course explores methodological problems involved in different types of political science research. It is focused on development of design of PhD dissertation research and results in the research proposal to be approved by the Academic Council of the Doctoral School. The course aims at developing or enhancing the following skills: • designing a research project (PhD dissertation research), including: • formulating a researchable question • writing an effective literature review • fitting the research question into an appropriate theory • sampling strategy • selecting data and designing methods • writing a research proposal. The course is blendid. It consists from discussions in the class and learning materials and tasks at dpo.hse.ru. The course is taught in English. But students who are going to write their thesis in Russian can write their papers for this course in Russian, if they wish.