Master 2026/2027

Research Seminar "Research Methodology and Design"

ID 1165776

Type: Compulsory course (Global and Regional History)

Delivered by: Department of History

Where: School of Arts and Humanities

When: 1 year, 1-4 module

Open to: students of one campus

Instructors: Tatiana Y. Borisova, Kirill Chunikhin, Aleksandra Kasatkina

Language: English

ECTS credits: 9

Contact hours: 80

Course Syllabus

Abstract

This course aims at providing guidance in writing MA dissertations. The Research seminar strengthens research skills and introduces students to diverse methodologies in history and anthropology. During the first year, this research seminar teaches students basic aspects of a historian’s and anthropologist's craft. The course works as a workshop and includes: 1) Seminars on major methods; 2) a short mini-course on Academic Rhetoric; 3) joined seminars with students of the second years; 4) project sessions discussing provisional MA theses.

Learning Objectives

• Teaching how to to write an MA

Expected Learning Outcomes

• Умения критически читать академические тексты и аргументированно обосновывать свою позицию.

Course Contents

• "Introduction to my field of inquiry"

Assessment Elements

• Class engagement
• review
• Final essay
• MA thesis proposal
• Participation in class discussions
• class engagement and 3 tasks
• presentation MA thesis proposal and participation in the discussion
• MA chapters

Interim Assessment

• 2026/2027 4th module
  0.1 * presentation MA thesis proposal and participation in the discussion + 0.25 * Final essay + 0.1 * class engagement and 3 tasks + 0.25 * Participation in class discussions + 0.3 * MA thesis proposal
• 2027/2028 3rd module
  0.5 * Class engagement + 0.25 * MA chapters + 0.25 * review

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• Analysing academic writing : contextualized frameworks, , 2004
• Rukmini, S. (2017). Academic Research Writing: An Overview and Process. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.7CED46CD

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• Genre analysis: English in academic and research settings, , 1990
• Swales, J. M., & Feak, C. B. (2001). Academic Communications and the Graduate Student. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.3E2EACE3

Authors

• Chaikovskaia Arina Alekseevna
• Borisova Tatiana Iurevna
• Chunikhin Kirill Aleksandrovich
• Kasatkina Aleksandra Konstantinovna