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732A60 Advanced Academic Studies

Course information

Course description

The course is designed for the students who are enrolled to the programme "Statistics and Machine Learning". The main aims of the course are to give an information about the program structure and opportunities, to discuss practical questions related to the studies at the program, to learn scientific writing and referencing, ethical rules, how to avoid plagiarism, and how to use library facilities.

The course consists of seminars, project work and a workshop. The seminars and workshop will be on campus.


Schedule is available on timeedit


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Course topics

Seminar 1, Monday 2023-08-21, 10:15 at Ada Lovelace: Introduction to the master's programme.  Slides here

Seminar 2*, Monday 2023-08-21, 13:15 at U1: Systems and software: LISAM, R. Slides here, and R code here

Seminar 3*, Tuesday 2023-08-22, 08:15 at U1: Study councelor and stress management. Slides here, and here

Seminar 4, Tuesday 2023-08-22, 13:15 at U1: Writing reports: RMarkdown and LaTeX. Slides here

Seminar 5, Wednesday 2023-08-23, 10:15 at U1: Scientific methods and data ethics. Slides here

Seminar 6, Wednesday 2023-08-23, 13:15 at Ada Lovelace: Library session. Read before seminar

Seminar 7, Wednesday 2023-08-23, 15:15 at Ada Lovelace: Equal opportunities. Slides here

Seminar 8, Thursday 2023-08-24, 13:15 at E326: Summaries and critical reviews. Introduction to the project work. Slides here


Workshop sessions: Roundtable discussions on the project work, more information below.


Note:

Attendance at all seminars are mandatory in order to pass the course. Seminars marked with the star (*) are optional for the students having a bachelor degree in Statistics and Data Analysis (Statistik och Dataanalys) from LiU.



Project work

You are assumed to write a short paper (3-4 pages) on one of the following course topics (choose the one that you are mostly interested in):
  • Academic writing
  • Writing reviews on scientific papers
  • Constructive criticism in the context of higher education
  • Ethical rules in the context of higher education
  • Academic culture
  • Equal opportunities the context of higher education
  • Data ethics and machine ethics
  • Literature search, search engines
  • Plagiarism in the context of higher education
In order to compose your paper, you need to do the following:
  1. Make a statement in the paper about why this topic is important, mention which problems there might exist in the context of this topic
  2. Check the existing literature (scientific papers) on the topic, summarize and present important facts/theories/methods/approaches
  3. Make a critical analysis of the topic by performing some of the following actions:
    • Comparing the problems/methods/approaches you described to the situation/traditions in your own country
    • Providing your own critical judgement about the theories/methods/approaches/guidelines that are present in the literature
    • Interviewing some people about the topic of your paper, summarizing their answers in the paper and making conclusions (construct the interview questions yourself)
The paper should be written in RMarkdown or LaTeX and contain all necessary attributes of a paper such as title, author, abstract, references.

The first submission attempt is through LISAM at latest on 24th of September 2023, 23:59.
The second submission attempt is through LISAM at latest on 15th of October 2023, 23:59.
The third submission attempt is through LISAM at latest on 11th of February 2024, 23:59.



Workshop session

The class will be divided into groups, and all students are assumed to read the papers of all students of their group before coming to the workshop. In addition, each student is supposed to make a careful reading of one student paper (decided by the teacher) and compose some amount of discussion points/questions that would suffice for a 20 minutes discussion in the class. These questions/comments should not relate to the grammar or formatting but should rather be such questions that may raise discussions in the class. For admission to the workshop, the student should have passed his/her written report.

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Last updated: 2023-08-24