Admission requirements
Students should have a thesis supervisor at the beginning of the research.
Before leaving for Latin America all students are obliged to send the details of their stay abroad to the International Office.
Description
This course consists of a short, or narrowly defined disciplinary research project in a Latin American country. Through methods and techniques of the humanities and social sciences, the student will collect material to report about in the Master’s thesis. The thesis supervisor will guide the student with the research proposal, the selection of the location of the study, and the conduction of field-work in Latin America.
Under consultation with the thesis supervisor and the Board of Examiners, alternative research stays at Leiden University or data collection in the Netherlands are a possibility.
Scholarships
Students need to organize the finances of their research stay themselves. They can apply for scholarships such as:
Course objectives
Students will deal with a different environment and culture, and learn to cope with a research practice that does not always correspond to the theories learned or the project on paper;
The ability to individually carry out academic research in Latin America by working with inter-views, observations, archive research, discourse analysis, statistical data or other methods to collect information;
Students will be able to conduct research and solve practical, methodological and content issues within a short timeframe;
At the end of the course, students will be able to report on the fieldwork conducted in the region.
Timetable
Not applicable
Method of Instruction
Fieldwork in Latin America. During the research stay, the students are in contact with the supervisor by email at least once every two weeks to inform on the developments and/or problems.
Study load
Fieldwork in Latin America (120 hrs.)
Revision/preparation research proposal (48 hrs.)
Writing research report (112 hrs.)
TOTAL: (10ECs): 280 hrs.
Assessment method
The grade consists of two assignments:
Revised research proposal (40%);
Report research stay in Latin America (3.000-4.000 words), where the student presents the fieldwork results and preliminary findings (60%).
Weighing
The final mark for the course is established by determining the weighted average.
Resit
Essay (5.000) words based on theoretical research for your specific research topic.
Blackboard
Blackboard will be used for:
- providing study materials
Readling list
Under consultation with the thesis supervisor.
Registration
Before leaving for Latin America all students are obliged to send the details of their stay abroad to the International Office.
Registration Studeren à la carte and Contractonderwijs
Not applicable
Contact information
For questions about this component, you can contact your thesis supervisor.
Coordinator of Studies: A.C. Wapenaar MA
Administrations Office: van Wijkplaats
Study Abroad coordinator: Karin Aalderink
Remarks
The research training (usually) takes place between 15 November (in the first semester of the academic year) and 1 February or 15 May (second semester) and 1 September. A research stay is six – eight weeks. In principle, the fieldwork may take place in any Latin American country and location, in consultation with the thesis supervisor. Students can profit from the institutional contacts of LAS with partner universities in the region.