Admission requirements
Students have finished a BA in the form of Literary Studies or Art History, and they have been admitted to the LUCAS Research Master Literary Studies or Arts and Culture.
Description
This seminar will train students in:
Presenting their work in front of a scientific panel or for an international (conference) audience, both in the form of a presentation and in the form of a conference poster;
Writing an article that has a fair chance of being accepted by a graduate journal;
Thinking about funding opportunities for research and ways to translate their ideas into a grant proposal.
In the first part, we mimic a scholarly conference with students going through every stage, from initial abstract to final presentation. Students prepare an abstract, judge each other’s work, practice presenting their papers, moderating thematic sessions etc. To get the most out of this seminar it is helpful if students already have an idea of the subject(s) they want to work on. This can be their thesis subject, but they can also choose another topic they want to pursue after graduating the ResMa.
In the second part, we train writing and re-writing an article that has a fair chance of being accepted by a graduate journal. In general, students write papers, get comments, and move on. In this part, all feedback is used to really re-write your text and re-write it again. We will be mimicking peer-review here and will be working with an editorial board.
As an epilogue to the course, students are invited to think about ways to obtain funding for their research. They get acquainted with various types of funding bodies and their requirements and explore the ways in which they could formulate their research ideas into a fundable grant application.
Students close the course with the presentation of a conference poster, presenting either the content of their articles, or a future research project they would like to pitch to a funding body. The medium of the poster challenges them to boil down their nuanced and worked-out scientific articles or their ambitious research projects to their core essence.
Course objectives
After this course students:
Have trained their abilities to present and pitch their work to an interdisciplinary and international audience;
Have trained their abilities to work on, and rework, versions of an article;
Have experience with the functioning and force of peer-review systems;
Have an increased awareness of the working of funding bodies and the requirements (in terms of form and content) of a grant application in the field of the humanities and social sciences;
Have acquired a number of transferable skills: doing a presentation, developing projects in cooperation, the ability to address an audience unfamiliar with a topic, act as chair or respondent, make a conference poster etc.
Timetable
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Mode of instruction
Seminar
Assessment method
Assessment
Students will be:
- Writing an article (50%)
- Producing a peer review (20%)
- Preparing and doing an oral presentation (30%)
Presentations are discussed in class; the grade for and content of the application and the article are part of an evaluation within three weeks after handing in the material.
Weighing
The final grade for the course is established by determining the weighted average.
Resit
Only the article can be part of a resit.
Inspection and feedback
How and when an exam review will take place will be disclosed together with the publication of the exam results at the latest. If a student requests a review within 30 days after publication of the exam results, an exam review will have to be organized.
Reading list
Not applicable.
Registration
Via uSis is mandatory.
Registration Studeren à la carte and Contractonderwijs
Not applicable.
Contact
Dr. E.A. Steinbock Dr. S.T.M. de Beer