Master
2025/2026
Instructors` seminar "New realities of international business"
Type:
Compulsory course (Master of International Business)
Delivered by:
School of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Where:
School of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
When:
1 year, 1-3 module
Open to:
students of one campus
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
9
Contact hours:
144
Course Syllabus
Abstract
The Mentor Seminar (MS) is designed to help students develop the competencies necessary for independent analytical, research and practical work. Students gradually learn how to search for, process and analyze data; conduct research for and write academic papers; present research outcomes.
The main goal of this module is to develop students’ analytical and research skills. These skills gradually evolve and consolidate as students work on the Master Thesis. Students learn how to handle large amounts of data in the contemporary information space; how to define a problem, form hypotheses and validate the findings.
Learning Objectives
- Development of competencies necessary for Master Thesis (MT) preparation
- Instruction on academic work, including how to prepare for and conduct research and how to write academic papers
- Step-by-step guidance for students on different stages of MT preparation: choosing the area and the topic of their research presentation and discussion of the current progress of the MT presentation of research outcomes (pre-defense of MT)
Expected Learning Outcomes
- To formulate a title of the MT
- To breakdown the title into pieces
- To identify the object & the subject of the research
- To define an issue/research problem and research goals
- To explore the issue and provide a possible practical solution
- To structure the MT
- To balance chapters
- To get prepared for the MT defense
- To be able to identify the object & the subject of the research
- To be able to explore the issue and provide a possible practical solution
- To get prepared for the 1st Chapter defense
Course Contents
- Year 1. Module 1. Selection of topic of MT
- Year 1. Module 2.
- Year 1. Module 3.
- Year 2. Module 1. Approval of the final topic of MT and research advisor
- Year 2. Module 1. Presentation of a brief of the analytical (empirical) part of MT (Chapter 2) together with the main results of Chapter 1
- Year 2. Module 2. Presentation of MT research outcomes together with the main results of Chapters 1 & 2
- Year 2. Module 2. Mandatory MT pre-defense
- Year 2. Module 3. MT defense
Assessment Elements
- Year 1. Attendance and participation in discussions on seminars and during master-classes
- Year 1.Presentation of MT topic
- Year 1. Presentation of MT object, subject and key question
- Year 1. Presentation of the outline and the brief of the 1st chapter of MT
- Year 1. 1st chapter defense
- Year 2. Attendance and participation in discussions and presentations
- Year 2. Presentation of a brief of the analytical part of MT (Chapter 2) with results of Chapter 1
- Year 2. Presentation of MT research outcomes together with the main results of Chapters 1 & 2
- Year 2. MT pre-defense
Interim Assessment
- 2025/2026 3rd module0.1 * Year 1. 1st chapter defense + 0.2 * Year 1. Attendance and participation in discussions on seminars and during master-classes + 0.1 * Year 1. Presentation of MT object, subject and key question + 0.5 * Year 1. Presentation of the outline and the brief of the 1st chapter of MT + 0.1 * Year 1.Presentation of MT topic
- 2026/2027 3rd module0.2 * Year 2. Attendance and participation in discussions and presentations + 0.4 * Year 2. MT pre-defense + 0.2 * Year 2. Presentation of MT research outcomes together with the main results of Chapters 1 & 2 + 0.2 * Year 2. Presentation of a brief of the analytical part of MT (Chapter 2) with results of Chapter 1
