Course Catalog 2013-2014
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Course Catalog 2013-2014

TTA-78016 Doctoral Course on Project Business , 5 cr

Additional information

Please contact professor Miia Martinsuo if you want to complete this course.
Suitable for postgraduate studies

Person responsible

Miia Martinsuo

Lessons

Study type P1 P2 P3 P4 Summer Implementations Lecture times and places
            TTA-78016 2013-01  

Requirements

The requirements to complete the course successfully are: -Read at least the required articles and book excerpts for all sessions, as shown in the reading list -Complete the two individual assignments successfully
Completion parts must belong to the same implementation

Principles and baselines related to teaching and learning

The course consists of readings and two individual assignments. The list of readings covers essential research literature within and at the boundaries of the project business research field. The students read materials assigned to them. Individual assignments are used to help doctoral students position their own thesis work within the research field, and evaluate the understanding of the student.

Learning Outcomes

The course offers doctoral students an overview of relevant research in project business. The objective is to increase doctoral students’ knowledge about the entire research field and its theoretical and empirical foundations. Both classical and modern sources are covered. Additionally, the objective is to develop doctoral students’ own positioning and argumentation within the field, and provoke critical and ambitious review work that would contribute directly to the doctoral students’ own research.

Content

Content Core content Complementary knowledge Specialist knowledge
1. single projects and their business     
2. project-based organizing in firms     
3. business in project networks     

Instructions for students on how to achieve the learning outcomes

A scale of 0-5 is used in grading, and grades are based on the essay on thesis positioning (40%) and the essay on the selected project business focus area (60%).

Assessment scale:

Numerical evaluation scale (1-5) will be used on the course

Partial passing:

Completion parts must belong to the same implementation

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Correspondence of content

Course Corresponds course  Description 
TTA-78016 Doctoral Course on Project Business , 5 cr TETA-9046 Doctoral Course on Project Business , 5 cr  

More precise information per implementation

Implementation Description Methods of instruction Implementation
TTA-78016 2013-01        

Last modified13.03.2013