Course Catalog 2008-2009 Basic Basic Pori International Postgraduate Open University |Degrees|     |Study blocks|     |Courses|

Course´s person responsible

Markku Renfors

Implementations

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Requirements

A course assignment.
Completion parts must belong to the same implementation

Principles and baselines related to teaching and learning

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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 field of ICT.

Study material

Type	Name	Author	ISBN	URL	Edition, availability, ...	Examination material	Language
Lecture slides	"Orientation to Postgraduate Studies"	Several authors.					English

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Last modified	12.08.2008
Modifier	Markku Renfors