Graduate Research Seminar Economics (plus) - Interactive curriculae of TU Ilmenau

Term paper (academic paper), oral presentation, seminar discussion

Various lecturers of the department

This module contains at least one alternative exam part. Please note that this must usually be registered at the beginning of the semester in which it is offered.
The lecturer and/or the examination office will inform you about the details and time periods. If necessary, be sure to ask the lecturer.

Lectures of the study plan that students are expected to have completed before the seminar takes place (depending on the seminar term either the lectures of the first or of the first and second semester)

By successfully completing the module the students will be able to understand a defined topic of economics, to contextualize it within the academic economics literature, to present it in a coherent way, and to provide a reflective analysis/discussion of the topic.
Successful students are competent to identify and systematize different streams of academic opinions and literature. They are able to carve out and specify relevant aspects of a more general topic.
Upon the successful completion of the module, students are competent to academically work on research questions by using state-of-the-art methods of the respective discipline and to derive an own independent expert opinion. They are further competent to present their analysis and their results in a written and in an oral way to an audience while following the requirements of scientific work both in form and content. Students are able to discuss their results within a group of peers.

Professors and lecturers from the Institute of Economics offer individual content.

- literature research

- written academic paper

- oral presentation of the main contents of the paper

- academic discussion with other participants and the lecturers/professors 

Depending on the individual topic; literature research is part of the learning outcome.