Course: Research and its Presentation

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Course title Research and its Presentation
Course code KMU/VJPK
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminar
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Frequency of the course Every year
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 5
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Kopecký Jiří, doc. PhDr. Ph.D.
  • Křupková Lenka, doc. PhDr. Ph.D.
Course content
1. Types of Academic Texts and Genres of Scholarly Writing in Musicology 2. The Heuristic Phase of Academic Writing and Working with Primary Sources 3. Working with Scholarly Literature 4. Libraries and Other Information Institutions for Musicological Research 5. Electronic Information Resources and Specialised Electronic Resources for Musicology 6. Methodological Approaches in Historical Musicology 7. Methodological Approaches in Systematic Musicology, Ethnomusicology, and Popular Music Studies 8. Structure of an Academic Text 9. The Process of Scholarly Writing, Academic Style, and Argumentation, and the Use of Artificial Intelligence Tools 10. Research Ethics, Publication Ethics, and Open Science 11. Publication Strategies: From Manuscript to Scholarly Publication 12. Presentation of a Scholarly Study and Academic Discussion

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook)
  • Homework for Teaching - 50 hours per semester
  • Attendace - 24 hours per semester
  • Preparation for the Course Credit - 26 hours per semester
  • Semestral Work - 25 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to develop the student's ability to transform the results of their own research into a scholarly academic text and to present them in an academic setting. The student will acquire the principles of academic text structure, style, and argumentation, learn how to work with primary sources and scholarly literature and how to use citation and referencing systems, and become familiar with the fundamental principles of publication and research ethics.
Students will learn to present the results of their research and engage in academic debate.
Prerequisites
Interest in a specific field of musicology; identifying a central research topic.

Assessment methods and criteria
Student performance, Analysis of linguistic

Preparation of a scholarly text in the form of a journal article, followed by the creation of a PowerPoint presentation.
Recommended literature
  • Literatura bude zadána na základě tématu práce. .
  • Čmejrková, S.-Daneš, F.-Světlá, J. (1999). Jak napsat odborný text. Praha.
  • ECO, U. (1997). Jak napsat diplomovou práci. Olomouc: Votobia .
  • HAJNÝ, J.; MOTALOVÁ, T.; WALEK, L.; PLÍHALOVÁ, L.; BENDA, P.; SUCHOMEL, P.; TOMÁŠEK, M.: Zásady dobré výzkumné praxe a tvůrčí činnosti na Univerzitě Palackého v Olomouci. Olomouc: VUP, 2024. Zásady dobré výzkumné praxe a tvůrčí činnosti na Univerzitě Palackého v Olomouci. OLomouc. 2024.
  • Kubátová, H. (2009). Rukověť autora diplomky : [čtení a psaní odborných textů ve společenskovědních a humanitních oborech]. Olomouc.
  • Šesták Z. (2000). Jak psát a přednášet o vědě. Praha.
  • Turabian, K. L., Booth, W. C., Colomb, G. G., & Williams, J. M. (2013). A manual for writers of research papers, theses, and dissertations: Chicago style for students and researchers. Chicago, Ill.


Study plans that include the course
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