Course detail

Diploma Project Seminar

FP-pdisPAcad. year: 2026/2027

The subject is linked to the final thesis. Teaching is carried out individually in designated hours, mainly in the form of consultations on partial problems, presentations of the results of processing partial parts of the bachelor's thesis.

Consultations are focused mainly on the following areas:
scientific methodology and creativity, structure of the bachelor's thesis and formal requirements for editing, information sources and literature citations, errors in processing the bachelor's thesis, working hypotheses, problem-solving methods.

After completing the subject, the student:

formulates a professional problem, goal and structure of his/her own final thesis,
applies appropriate methodological approaches,
works with professional sources and adheres to the rules of citation,
composes a professional text in terms of content and form in accordance with the requirements.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

10

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. Mgr. Veronika Novotná, Ph.D.

Department

Institute of Informatics (ÚI)

Entry knowledge

Knowledge and utilization of basic intellectual operations.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

The instructions of the thesis supervisor are followed.
Students are obliged to regularly consult partial outputs with the supervisor of the bachelor's thesis.

To be awarded credit, the following conditions must be met

- submit partial parts of the bachelor's thesis within the specified deadlines,

- edit the processed parts of the final thesis according to the recommendations and instructions of the supervisor of the bachelor's thesis.

Successful completion of the course is conditional on the timeliness, completeness and quality of the materials submitted on an ongoing basis.

Aims

The main objective of the course is to make students familiar with intellectual work methodology, ways of retrieving, processing and use of information, as well as with the formal aspects of the diploma thesis. It focuses also on mastering basic skills when preparing for, working out and presenting the diploma thesis.
Having completed the course, students will be able to define a problem, to find, organize and generalize information, to create working hypothesises, to find and use suitable methods for solution to the given problem, and to compose a defence.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Doporučená literatura vedoucím bakalářské práce
ISO norma 690

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme BAK-MIn Bachelor's 3 year of study, winter semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Seminar

26 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Mgr. Veronika Novotná, Ph.D.

Syllabus

Topics of seminars are the following:
- Professionalism in life and work
- Basic intellectual operations
- Methodology of creative work
- Searching and processing information
- Formal aspects of complex written work
- Literature quotations
- Model structure of diploma thesis
- Formal requirements on diploma thesis and most frequent errors
- Tactics of defence of own opinions
- Practical presentation of diploma thesis study

Self-study

195 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Mgr. Veronika Novotná, Ph.D.

Individual preparation for an ending of the course

40 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Mgr. Veronika Novotná, Ph.D.