Master's seminar I

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Course ID:	1900-3-SM1-MT
Erasmus code / ISCED:	07.1 Kod klasyfikacyjny przedmiotu składa się z trzech do pięciu cyfr, przy czym trzy pierwsze oznaczają klasyfikację dziedziny wg. Listy kodów dziedzin obowiązującej w programie Socrates/Erasmus, czwarta (dotąd na ogół 0) – ewentualne uszczegółowienie informacji o dyscyplinie, piąta – stopień zaawansowania przedmiotu ustalony na podstawie roku studiów, dla którego przedmiot jest przeznaczony. / (unknown)
Course title:	Master's seminar I
Name in Polish:	Seminarium magisterskie I
Organizational unit:	Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies
Course groups:
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores):	(not available) Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles: the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS; the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h; 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes; weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS; work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load. view allocation of credits
Language:	Polish
Main fields of studies for MISMaP:	geography
Type of course:	obligatory courses
Prerequisites (description):	Course is in Polish. The aim of graduate seminar is to enrich and consolidate knowledge, students develop skills useful in self-realization of the thesis, including through identification and formulating of scientific problems, discussing and presenting different scientific views, search the interdependence between phenomena, the correct formulation ofconclusions. An important part of education is to acquire social skills in cooperation with the promoter, which is also the adviser and critic of work effects a participant of the seminar.
Mode:	Classroom
Short description:	The subject of the seminar will be the issues related to the implementation of master's theses on the borderline of geography and urban studies, geography and the sciences on tourism. Their subject is associated in with the urban areas and the spatial aspects of different types of tourism, both in Poland and in other countries (in Europe and beyond).
Full description:	The aim of the seminar is to provide knowledge on basic scientific methods, selected research methods and theory of spatial urban studies and tourism in the course of preparing the thesis. The student becomes familiar with the conceptualization (formulating research problems and hypotheses) and operationalization of the research work, collecting empirical material and the development of empirical data.
Bibliography:	Babbie E. 2006, Badania społeczne w praktyce, Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, Warszawa. de Botton A., 2010, Sztuka podróżowania, Czuły Barbarzyńca Press, Warszawa. Dielemans J., 2011, Witajcie w raju. Reportaże o przemyśle turystycznym, Wydawnictwo Czarne, Wołowiec. Jałowiecki B., 2007, Globalny świat metropolii, WN Scholar. Liszewski S. (red.) 2012, Geografia urbanistyczna , WN PWN, Warszawa MacCannell D., 2002, Turysta. Nowa teoria klasy próżniaczej, Warszawskie Wydawnictwo Literackie MUZA SA, Warszawa.
Learning outcomes:	After completing the course the student: KNOWLEDGE: knows the theoretical basis of urban studies and conditions for the development of tourism and tourist reception areas and their application in practice. SKILLS: knows how to explain the genesis of phenomena and processes, present them on the map and point out possible solutions to the problems of shaping and use of urban space and valorization of tourism and tourist development. . ATTITUDES: he is aware of the responsibilities of researcher during data collection (contacts wit(contacts with respondents and representatives of local authorities), and respect for honesty in the presentation of research results.
Assessment methods and assessment criteria:	Attendance (limit of three unexcused absences). The assessment is based on student's activity during the seminar, the progress of the thesis, quality of presentation and reasoning skills of the results. Seminar participant is obliged to at least one presentation per semester selected issues (based on literature), or the progress in the development of thesis.

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