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Methodology of Academic Research and Intellectual Property Fundamentals

ОК 12

Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП

Second

2021/2022

2 Semester

3

PLO 1. To assess own educational, scientific and professional activities, to build and implement an effective strategy of personal and professional self-development. PLO 3. To apply modern methods and technologies, in particular, IT for effective implementation of professional activities and ensuring the quality of scientific research in a specific philological area. PLO 12. To carry out a scientific analysis of linguistic and literary materials, to interpret and structure them, following classical and modern methodological principles, and make generalizations based on the obtained data. PLO 16. To choose the optimal research approaches and methods to analyze a specific linguistic or literary material. PLO 17. Plan, organize, implement and present theoretical and applied research in a specific philological area (see § 6 of the syllabus).

To succeed, the course requires knowledge of English at the level not lower than B2 of CEFR. In addition, students are supposed to know the main stages of the research process, to be able to collect and process information, and to possess elementary skills for conducting research.

The subject of the discipline is modern methodology of science, a set of methodological tools of science, as well as intellectual property law and commercialization of intellectual property. The discipline aims to provide students with knowledge and skills that create the necessary organizational and legal basis for professional research, its presentation to the scientific community, protection and commercialization of intellectual property rights to its results.

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The modes of the course delivery encompass lectures, seminars and self-study, incl. oral answers to the questions, scientific discussions and written tests. The teaching methods include explanations, illustrations, heuristics and research, which help develop students’ analytical skills and unlock their scientific and creative potential.

The form of summative assessment is a pass/fail grade. The pass grade is given if students score 60–100 points for their work throughout the semester, which does not presuppose any additional assessment. The students who score less than 60 points are required to do the missing assignments, which may be assessed through written tests and individual written tasks. Formative assessment takes place on a day-to-day basis and incorporates students’ results for all types of learning activities, incl. self-study.

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