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The second course, which we had to take this semester, was called Research Methods. 
Within this course we developed overall understanding of methodology which is essential for writing of our Master´s theses. I found this course really rewarding and I have learnt so many things which I will make use of during writing of any paper. I really feel the progress since the course has started. I had never taken any methodological course and finally now I had a possibility to learn all techniques to process data, analyse data and how to write academically in general.
We had a lot of assignments within this course, I mean, really a lot 😀 Every week we had two seminars and we had to be prepared to discuss, so that we had to read several articles and book for each seminar to understand the topic. We had to submit 5 assignments in the first part of the course which were mostly related to qualitative and quantitative research methods and then we had to write a research proposal for a Master´s thesis where we had to show our understanding of all techniques and methods discussed during the course. This was difficult to find a topic which I would like to relate my future Master´s thesis to (we are not required to use the topic we wrote the proposal about, however, it would be nice just to develop the idea that we have already worked on). We also had to read proposals done by other students and give them constructive feedback and also, we had received useful advice on how to develop our thoughts and whether the topic is relevant. We also had to submit a glossary of words used within this course. This was a list of more than one hundred of academical words and we had to explain them with our own words. The final document had more than 20 pages 😀 On the other hand, it was worth it as we can use our own glossary in the future and due to use of referencing, we do not have to look for the articles or other sources again.
This course was really intense but really useful and beneficial. Even though I am so glad it is over, I am glad that I had a possibility to deepen my knowledge and I suppose that I can make use of this knowledge in every upcoming course.
Denisa