LEARNING OUTCOMES
Credits: 3
Schedule: 15.01.2025 - 19.03.2025
Teacher in charge (valid for whole curriculum period):
Teacher in charge (applies in this implementation): Kaisa Savolainen
Contact information for the course (applies in this implementation):
For more information about the course, please contact:
Kaisa.savolainen@aalto.fi
Johanna.viitanen@aalto.fi
CEFR level (valid for whole curriculum period):
Language of instruction and studies (applies in this implementation):
Teaching language: English. Languages of study attainment: English
CONTENT, ASSESSMENT AND WORKLOAD
Content
applies in this implementation
This course is targeted for doctoral researchers, who have already published some articles and are doing research in software and service engineering or related research areas.
Learning outcomes:
•Students gain an overview of the different types of topics of doctoral theses in the field.•Students gain examples of alternative ways to compose doctoral dissertations.•Students learn the needed skills to critically analyse research outputs and summarize them.•Students learn how to effectively share and discuss research outputs and gain skills in how to distribute the workload in covering research literature.
Assessment Methods and Criteria
applies in this implementation
Successful completion of the course requires:
- Participation on the teaching sessions
- Analysing one doctoral thesis, creating a summary of the thesis and leading the discussion in the classroom session
- Submitting a document on your own learnings and reflections.
Grading is pass/fail.
Workload
applies in this implementation
Course is 3 ECTS.
DETAILS
Study Material
applies in this implementation
Earlier doctoral theses in software and service engineering or related research areas.
Substitutes for Courses
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Prerequisites
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FURTHER INFORMATION
Further Information
valid for whole curriculum period:
Teaching language: English
applies in this implementation
Teachers:
Kaisa Savolainen, Johanna Viitanen, Marjo Kauppinen, Sari Kujala
Details on the schedule
applies in this implementation
Every Wednesday at 10:15–12, in CS building T4.
January 15th: introductions, course practicalities, setting the schedule
January 22nd: Writing a doctoral thesis, requirements of a thesis (Marjo Kauppinen, Sari Kujala)
Following sessions: Doctoral theses discussions
March 19th: Reflections, learnings and recap