SW4971 : Seminar

Department

Department of Soil and Water

Academic Program

Master in Water Science

Type

Compulsory

Credits

01

Prerequisite

Overview

The seminar course is concerned with preparing the student's research plan, as well as teaching the student how to present his own research in a convincing way to listeners from different disciplines. The student also learns how to write a research proposal in an accurate scientific manner. One of the objectives of this course is also for the student to highlight the skills required to discuss reviewers and critics and how to prepare scientific response reports.

Intended learning outcomes

By the end of the course the student will be able to:

A. Knowledge & understand

A.1. Students will be introduced to complex research methods, scholarly writing tasks, criticism and argumentation.

A.2. The student can present orally and be guided by convincing scientific arguments. A.3 The student contributes to building a solid base to help him to prepare the research and develop detailed outlines for the thesis.

A.4. The student explains the reasons for choosing the research topic.

A.5. The student describes the obstacles and limitations of the research.

B. Mental skills

B 1. The student chooses the appropriate research question, research objectives and hypotheses.

B.2. The student relates the problem and methods of solving it.

B.3. The student is guided by previous studies related to the research problem.

B.4. The student concludes the ideas that he can discover by deeply study of the causes of the research problem.

B.5. The student compares the previous and different methods for solving research problems related to the proposed research topic.

C. Practical & professional skills

C.1. The student diagnoses the problems that may arise during the research.

C.2. The student uses the various knowledge and acquired skills in achieving the research objectives.

C.3. The student designs his research so that his achievement in the required time is taken into consideration.

C.4. The ability to anticipate future studies on the subject of research.

C.5. The student will be able to find solutions to any problem that may arise in the implementation of the research.

D. Generic and transferable skills

D.1. The student will be able to deal with the supervisor and communicate with individuals and public and private entities related to the research proposal.

D.2. The student will be able to manage time and use different scientific media.

D.3. The student will be able to deal with scientific papers.

D.4. The student will be able to explain the reasons and importance of the research.

D.5. The student will be able to persuade with scientific evidence and scientific references to confirm or refute a scientific text contained in the research proposal.

Teaching and learning methods

1. Lectures.

2. Case studies.

3. Seminar.

Methods of assessments

No

Assessment Methods

Assessment date

Percentage

1

First midterm exam

After the fifth week of study

20 %

2

Second midterm exam

After the tenth week of study

20 %

3

Homework

After the week of twelfth study

20 %

4

Final midterm exam

After the week of twelfth study

40 %

Total

100 %