Course detail

Academic Work Proseminar

FA-SAK-TEAcad. year: 2026/2027

Academic Work Proseminar will provide students with an introduction to the principles of professional activity in the field of research and the basics of professional writing and presentation of the results of scientific work with regard to its ethical dimension. Emphasis is placed on expert information sources with emphasis on adherence to copyright requirements. Practical surveys and analyses will also be part of the seminar. The seminar is intended to create a theoretical basis for the practical design phase and practice.
Students will be led to the profiling of their own research and their own areas of interest, to the preparation and processing of analytical and synthetic parts of scientific work, to critical thinking and written and verbal presentation of scientific results and their discussion.

Language of instruction

English

Number of ECTS credits

4

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. Ing. arch. Nina Bartošová, Ph.D.

Department

Department of Theory (UT)

Entry knowledge

Not applicable.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Students are evaluated on the basis of a submitted paper and its presentation in the final seminar. Students submit the text according to the specific assignment; 80% of the total mark consists of written work, 20% of its presentation. 

Aims

The course has two main aims:

  1. To introduce students to the foundations of the social sciences, their approaches to studying society, and, in particular, their approaches to the study of architecture and urbanism.
  2. To introduce students to the major paradigms of the social sciences, develop their ability to work with academic sources, identify relevant and high-quality sources, recognise the main characteristics of a scholarly text, and use such sources both for critical reading and for academic writing. By the end of the course, students will:
  • be familiar with the main approaches to social-science research and be able to use them critically to reflect on their own discipline;
  • be able to search for and identify relevant, high-quality academic information;
  • acquire deeper and more specialised knowledge needed for writing academic texts;
  • acquire basic methods of scholarly research and develop their ability to work with academic literature;
  • be able to think critically about the knowledge they acquire in areas related to their interests;
  • be able to present the results of their work effectively, both in writing and orally.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

GROAT, Linda N; WANG, David. Architectural research methods. Hoboken: Wiley, 2013. ISBN 978-0-470-90855-6. (EN)
LUCAS, R. Research methods for architecture. Laurence King Publishing, 2016. (EN)
WALLWORK, Adrian. English for Writing Research Papers. Springer Science + Business Media, 2011. ISBN 1441979212. (EN)

Recommended reading

ILYIN, Natalia. Writing for the Design Mind. Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019. ISBN: 978-1350034976. (EN)
LEA, Diana; BULL, Victoria; WEBB, Suzanne; DUNCAN, Robert. Oxford learner's dictionary of academic English. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0-19-433350-4. (EN)
MCCARTHY, Michael; O'DELL, Felicity. Academic vocabulary in use. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-521-68939-7. (EN)

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme NE_A+U Master's

    specialization --- (Sept) , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
    1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Seminar

26 hours, compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. arch. Nina Bartošová, Ph.D.