Master
2022/2023
Master's Thesis Pre-defence
Type:
Compulsory course (Strategic Corporate Finance)
Area of studies:
Finance and Credit
Delivered by:
School of Finance
Where:
Faculty of Economic Sciences
When:
2 year, 4 module
Mode of studies:
offline
Open to:
students of one campus
Instructors:
Viсtoria A. Cherkasova,
Olga Guseva,
Ella Khromova (Fokina),
Maria S. Kokoreva,
Sergey A. Kuzubov,
Elena Y. Makeeva,
Sergey Stepanov,
Dmitrii Vyacheslavovich Timofeev
Master’s programme:
Strategic Corporate Finance
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
3
Contact hours:
16
Course Syllabus
Abstract
The seminar is devoted to the preparation for the defense of graduate qualification works of Master's students. During the seminar, each of the students will present preliminary results of their work and receive feedback from faculty members of the School of Finance. This will both improve the results and improve the presentation skills of the student.
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Apply up-to-date research techniques in economics and finance
- A student compares research design
- Know the formal structure of research work;
- develop the skills of oral and written speech at the level of reception and production; provide the ability to work simultaneously with different types and types of texts of a social and professional orientation; vary the complexity of the course, offering the necessary amount of independent search and research work, taking into account the real learning situation.
- provide the ability to work simultaneously with different types and types of texts of a social and professional orientation; vary the complexity of the course, offering the necessary amount of independent search and research work, taking into account the real learning situation.
- Student’s skills will be developed while presenting their research (using conference format for class presentations).
- Students will be able to build up a research team and work on a co-authored writing project
- Students will be able to consolidate their reading in their research area by writing an annotated bibliography and /or literature review
- Students will be able to understand the functioning of academic research, writing, editing, and international publishing
- Distinguish between qualitative and quantitative research methods;
- • Ability: to use statistical data, analytical national and industry reviews, research publications, and the latest business news to analyze the current conditions of starting and expanding a foreign business and make strategic decisions regarding the ways of establishing a new business with foreign participation.
Interim Assessment
- 2022/2023 4th module0.5 * presentation skills + 0.5 * presentation format & the quality of Q&A
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Filimonova, O. E. Analytical Reading for Master Students : учебное пособие / O. E. Filimonova. — Санкт-Петербург : РГПУ им. А. И. Герцена, 2012. — 131 с. — ISBN 978-5-8064-1690-3. — Текст : электронный // Лань : электронно-библиотечная система. — URL: https://e.lanbook.com/book/5564 (дата обращения: 00.00.0000). — Режим доступа: для авториз. пользователей.
- Terttu Orci. (1996). A Guide to Writing a Master’s Thesis.
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Магистерская диссертация: методы и организация исследований, оформление и защита : учебное пособие / А. В. Беляев, М. М. Бутакова, В. И. Беляев [и др.]. — Москва : КноРус, 2016. — 262 с. — (для магистрантов). — ISBN 978-5-406-05086-6. — URL: https://book.ru/book/918891 (дата обращения: 25.08.2023). — Текст : электронный.
- Магистерская диссертация: методы и организация исследований, оформление и защита : учебное пособие / А. В. Беляев, М. М. Бутакова, В. И. Беляев [и др.]. — Москва : КноРус, 2018. — 262 с. — (для магистрантов). — ISBN 978-5-406-06468-9. — URL: https://book.ru/book/929521 (дата обращения: 25.08.2023). — Текст : электронный.