Social Psychology Diploma Seminar - APS300464
Title: Diplomový seminář sociální psychologie
Guaranteed by: Department of Psychology (21-KPS)
Faculty: Faculty of Arts
Actual: from 2024
Semester: winter
Points: 0
E-Credits: 5
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/2, C [HT]
Capacity: unknown / unlimited (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
Guarantor: Mgr. Zuzana Štěrbová, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): Mgr. Zuzana Štěrbová, Ph.D.
Incompatibility : APS300462, APS300463, APS300465
Interchangeability : APS300462, APS300463, APS300465
Is incompatible with: APS300463, APS300465, APS300466
Is interchangeable with: APS300465, APS300466, APS300463
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Annotation -
Methodological and content management of diploma theses. It is based on specifying the requirements for the thesis, familiarizing with the structure of the thesis and repeating the principles for working with documentary information. The actual content of the seminar is student reports on individual projects. The theoretical background and the procedure for the empirical part of the thesis are discussed. The aim of the course is to deepen students' preparation for independent publishing work (not only in the framework of DP and its defense).

Course content:

Analysis of the thesis topics; Requirements for the thesis; Work with documentary information in relation to the thesis; Overview of sources of documentary information in relation to specific themes of individual theses; Preparation of theses (thematic units, thesis layout, definition of the main problem of research, the most important sub-problems, methods and procedures applied in the thesis, basic literature); Presentations by individual students on the process of solving the sub-tasks; Analysis and evaluation of the process; Consultations to resolve basic methodological issues, to evaluate and interpret the results; Discussion focused on methodological, ethical, content and formal aspects of theses.
Last update: Pastyříková Iveta, Mgr. (03.08.2023)
Course completion requirements -
Presentation of a report on the progress of work on the diploma task (outline presentation of the basic approach to the topic and the solution of selected problems in the progress of work from the literature review, through the formulation of the problem and, if necessary, hypotheses, analysis of variables, the choice of research project, methods, experimental subjects, examination procedures, the implementation of the actual collection of data to their processing). Preparation and submission of a written thesis of at least 2 pages of text. 
Last update: Pastyříková Iveta, Mgr. (03.08.2023)
Literature -

Recommended:  
 American Psychological Association. (2020). Publication manual of the american psychological association, 7th Edition. American Psychological Association. 

Creswell, J. W., & Creswell, J. D. (2022). Research design: Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods approaches. London: Sage.  

Haynes, S. N., & Hunsley, J. D. (2020). Writing dissertations and theses in psychology: A student's guide for success. London: Routledge. 

The list of other recommended literature is refined during the course. 

Last update: Pastyříková Iveta, Mgr. (03.08.2023)