Courses persons responsible
Jarmo Takala

Lecturers
Jarmo Takala

Implementations

Person responsible:

Jarmo Takala

	Period 1	Period 2	Period 3	Period 4	Period 5	Summer
Lecture	2 h/week	2 h/week	-	-	-	-

Person responsible:

Jarmo Takala

	Period 1	Period 2	Period 3	Period 4	Period 5	Summer
Lecture	-	-	-	2 h/week	2 h/week	-

(Timetable for academic year 2006-2007)

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. Furthermore, students will have basic knowledge on research 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, progress and graduation, dissertation, introduction to research in Dept. of IT.

Requirements for completing the course
Active participation and successful completion of given exercises.

Evaluation criteria for the course

Prerequisites
Prequisite relations (Sign up to TUT Intranet required)

Remarks

Scaling

Methods of instruction	Hours
Lectures	28
Assignments	52
Total sum	80

Additional information related to course
The course is organized by the Department of Information Technology and is compulsory for post-graduate students in Digital and Computer Systems. Students applying for the post-graduate program should take this course no later than during the first year of their post-graduate studies. The students can be officially accepted to the program only after passing this course (no later than one year after applying). The course is also suitable for MSc students aiming at working in R&D projects in industry.

The course is given in English.

Correspondence of content
8409992 Orientation to Postgraduate Studies

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Last modified	20.04.2006
Modified by	Olli Vainio