Dissertation Plan/Work Project/Internship Plan

Code:

2FI18

Acronym:

DWPIP

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Management Studies

Instance: 2015/2016 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Management
Course/CS Responsible:	Master in Finance

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MIF	60	Bologna Official Syllabus	2	-	7,5	56	202,5

Teaching language

English

Objectives

To allow students to make use of the knowledge learned (in the first year of the Finance Master programme) in preparing their dissertation plan.

At the end of the course, the student should be able to:

- understand some basic concepts of research and its methodologies,

- identify appropriate research topics and a research problem

- prepare a project dissertation proposal.

Learning outcomes and competences

At the final essay, the student is expected to:

- clearly identify the research question(s) and discuss the gap/opening question he wants to study in its master dissertation;

- fully perform a literature review and systematize the relevant literature in a main framework;

- justifiably identify the methodology suitable to analyze the problem in research (based in the relevant literature)

- plan the research work through a chronogram.

Working method

Presencial

Program

1. How to write a scientific paper/research

2. Bibliographic and Statistical databases

3. Quantitative research methods. Data analysis.

Mandatory literature

Saunders, Mark; Lewis, Philip and Thornhill, Adrian; Research Methods for Business Students, Prentice-Hall, Edinburgh, 2002
Bryman, Alan; Bell, Emma; Business Research Methods, Financial Times / Prentice Hall, London, 2006
TBA – Quantitative research methods

Teaching methods and learning activities

 

- Teaching sessions.

- Tutorial sessions for reflection, discussion and motivation for future work of dissertation project.

- Presentation and discussion of dissertation themes, intermediate dissertation project draft and final project.

 

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	0,00
Prova oral	45,00
Trabalho escrito	55,00
Total:	100,00

Calculation formula of final grade

Final Grade = 0,15 x PaperPresentation + 0,55 x Final Essay + 0,30 x OralExamination

 

 All the delivery dates are until 23h59 of the defined day (See documents folder)

 - If the student does not present the research idea (in the defined week), 1 point (out of 20) will be deducted from the final grade.

 - If the student does not send the resume (according to indications) until the defined date, 1 point (out of 20) will be deducted from the final grade.

 -  If the student does not send the First Essay (according to indications) until the defined date, 2 points (out of 20) will be deducted from the final grade.

 - If the student fails any of the above mentioned assignments with classification (the final essay delivery ,paper presentation, final oral presentation), he/she will have a classification of zero points (out of 20) in the corresponding assessment.