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TLT-9106 ORIENTATION TO POSTGRADUATE STUDIES, 3 cr
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Courses persons responsible
Markku Renfors
Implementations
| Period 1 | Period 2 | Period 3 | Period 4 | Period 5 | Summer | |
| Lecture | 2 h/week | 2 h/week | - | - | - | - |
Objectives
Course provides basic understanding of post-graduate studies and scientific and applied research. After the course students are able to find a research problem, review literature, and prepare an initial plan for post-graduate studies and research. Students will also have basic knowledge on reserach methods.
Content
| Content | Core content | Complementary knowledge | Specialist knowledge |
| 1. | Structure of post-graduate studies, research methods, review of literature, discovering new knowledge, scientific publications, ethical issues in science and engineering, progress and graduation, dissertation, introduction to research in the Dept. of IT.
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Requirements for completing the course
A course assignment.
Evaluation criteria for the course
Study material
| Type | Name | Auhor | ISBN | URL | Edition, availability... | Exam material | Language |
| Lecture slides | "Orientation to Postgraduate Studies" | Several authors. | http://www.cs.tut.fi/kurssit/OHJ-1806/ | No | English |
Prerequisites
Prequisite relations (Sign up to TUT Intranet required)
Additional information about prerequisites
The prerequisite is Master's Degree completed or close to completion.
Remarks
The course is organized by the Department of Information Technology and is compulsory for post-graduate students. Student applying to the post-graduate program should take this course no later than during the first year of their post-graduate studies. The Web-based implementation allows students to pass the course at any time during the academic year. The students can be officially accepted to the program only after passing this course.
Distance learning
- In information distribution via homepage, newsgroups or mailing lists, e.g. current issues, timetables
- In compiling teaching material, particularly for online use or other electronic media
- In distributing and/or returning exercise work, material etc
- In interaction and discussion, such as online discussions, chat
- Contact teaching: 20 %
- Distance learning: 80 %
- Proportion of a student's independent study: 67 %
Scaling
| Methods of instruction | Hours |
| Lectures | 24 |
| Assignments | 48 |
| Total sum | 72 |
Correspondence of content
8309992 Orientation to Postgraduate Studies
| Last modified | 07.02.2006 |
| Modified by | Markku Renfors |