Master
2025/2026
Mentor's seminar "Population and Development"
Type:
Compulsory course (Population and Development)
Delivered by:
Department of Demography
When:
1 year, 1-4 module
Open to:
students of one campus
Language:
English
Contact hours:
28
Course Syllabus
Abstract
Mentor’s seminar (MS) is an additional "playground" for academic communication between the students and the Academic supervisor of the programme together with the invited specialists from the different HSE University Units. A guided development of the research ideas and the ways of their finalization in the papers or analytical works gives the students’ opportunities for the basic academic and research skills improvement. Within the MS activity the students could be oriented to the research fields close to their interests and advantages as well as the vision of the skills to be developed and improved for the further achievement in different fields (including the academic and market spheres).
Learning Objectives
- The main goals of this discipline are following: 1) To guide the students with their research ideas converted into the materials for the proposal and finally to the thesis 2) To guide the students with the electives 3) To demonstrate the opportunities of the practical use for the skills received
Course Contents
- Examples of Python Calculations
- Proposal Defense
- The first pre-defense of Master's thesis
- Discussion on PhD
- The second pre-defense of Master's thesis
Assessment Elements
- Examples of Python Calculations
- Proposal Protection
- The first pre-defense of Master's thesis
- Discussion on PhD
- The second pre-defense of Master's thesis
