Duration
Number of credits
| Master in multilingual communication, professional focus in digital media education (Digital media education) | 20 crédits |
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
English language
Organisation and examination
All year long
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
Description of the teaching unit:
This course is designed to help the student define a dissertation project.
Table of contents:
- The different types of dissertation (including action research);
- The state of the art - Introduction to documentary research;
- Defining a problematic and a research question;
- Methodological aspects
- Defining a plan;
- Practice: Drafting the dissertation project.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
At the end of the course, the student will be able...
- develop a research problem and a research question (or an action project, in the framework of an action research);
- define the state of the art and show how the question addressed (or the action-research project) is relevant to it;
- develop a relevant and realistic methodology for addressing the issue (or conducting the project, in the case of action research);
- define the plan and structure of the master thesis.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Pre-requisite: Block 1 course.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Oral lectures with student note-taking; seminar exchanges; workshops; individual follow-up sessions.
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Face-to-face course
Additional information:
Face-to-face courses (unless adaptations need to be made due to the sanitary context).
Course materials and recommended or required readings
Course materials available on eCampus.
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- Remote
written exam
Written work / report
Additional information:
The evaluation of the course will be based on an individual assignment in which the student will detail his/her master thesis project (type of master thesis, problematic and research question/action research project, state of the art, method, plan).
Work placement(s)
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
Contacts
Ingrid.Mayeur@uliege.be