Dissertation

Code:

MC200

Acronym:

D

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Criminology

Instance: 2023/2024 - A

Active?	Yes
Course/CS Responsible:	Criminology

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MC	39	Plano Oficial do ano letivo 2017	2	-	60	-

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

In this course, student must make an original research work, in order to write her dissertation, revealing that is holding solid knowledge in Criminology, or building an action-research project.

Learning outcomes and competences

More specifically, it is intended students demonstrate the ability to integrate knowledge, to develop an appropriate and current review of the state of the art on the selected theme, to raise research questions, selecting the research design most appropriate to the subject and set out issues, to define research hypotheses, to effectively collect and to analyse data using the most appropriate instruments and, finally, to achieve conclusions responding to initially established research questions. The aim is also that the student is able to communicate their findings effectively in the dissertation / project and discuss it in public.

Working method

Presencial

Program

The contents of the course depend on the research topic, which should be preferably empirical, selected by the student in the field of Criminology, to be presented on dissertation or project.

Mandatory literature

Tim Newburn; Key readings in criminology. ISBN: 978-1-84392-402-9

Complementary Bibliography

Virginia Braun; Successful qualitative research: a practical guide for beginners. ISBN: 978-1-84787-581-5
Andy Field; Discovering statistics using IBM SPSS Statistics and sex and drugs and rock.n.roll. ISBN: 978-14462-4918-5
Floyd J. Fowler Jr.; Survey research methods. ISBN: 0-7619-2191-5
Frank E. Hagan; Research methods in criminal justice and criminology. ISBN: 0-205-44739-2
Roy D. King; Doing research on crime and justice. ISBN: 978-0-19-928762-8
João Marôco; Análise estatística com o SPSS Statistics. ISBN: 978-989-96763-2-9
João Marôco; Análise de equações estruturais. ISBN: 978-989-96763-1-2
Donileen R Loseke; Methodological thinking. ISBN: 978-1-4129-9720-1

Comments from the literature

In this course, it is intended that students develop an original research on a topic or a research-action project. Therefore, they will need to use a specific bibliography selected over own literature review process.

Teaching methods and learning activities

This course runs under tutorial supervision. Therefore, students must follow their research or project, in accordance to the formal rules in use at the Faculty.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Defesa pública de dissertação, de relatório de projeto ou estágio, ou de tese	100,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Trabalho escrito	1620,00
Total:	1620,00

Eligibility for exams

According to the Regulation in force.

Calculation formula of final grade

According to the Regulation in force

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

n.a.

Classification improvement

n.a.