Course syllabus

Welcome to the course Introduction to doctoral studies and information retrieval!

Course content

The purpose of this course it to introduce the doctoral students to the rules and regulations that apply to doctoral studies and where to find the information. Furthermore, the doctoral students will get to know about expectations and opportunities during their education as well as be given an overview of the university organization and administration, including ISP, Primula etc

The university's support functions of importance for doctoral students will be presented and the doctoral students will learn how to efficiently retrieve information and handling references.

The course is part of the faculty’s mandatory course package for doctoral students.

Course set up 

The course consists of two parts; the rules and regulations that apply to doctoral studies at GU and SA and information retrieval. Links and materials needed to participate in the teaching is found in the modules. The teaching is campus based on Monday-Wednesday and via Zoom on Thursday-Friday.

Schedule is found in TimeEdit pdf, schedule link

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Groups

Learning outcomes

After completing the course the doctoral student is expected to be able to:

Describe the rules for doctoral education at the Sahlgrenska Academy (SA) and the University of Gothenburg (GU). Describe how doctoral education is organized at SA/GU, and the university organisation and administration. Know where to obtain information on doctoral education at SA/GU.

Describe the sustainable development goals at SA/GU.

Identify what sevices are provided by support functions at GU and where to find information.

Apply search strategies in different types of scientific databases, compose search strategies, organize the result and critically assess the result. Evaluate the achieved information as well as the search process per se.

Examination and grade requirements

The examination is covered through individual assignments; a quiz (0.5 credits) and assignment A and B on information search (1 credit).

The quiz will be open on Friday September the 15th, and the deadline is Sunday the 17th at 23:59 pm.

The deadline for the individual assignments on information search is Sunday the 17th at 23:59 pm.

The course is graded Pass (G) or Fail (U).

In case of absence or failure at the course's compulsory components, the student should participate in a replacement activity according to the course leader's direction.

Course leaders

Anna Benrick, Ingrid Wernstedt Asterholm and Maria Johansson.

E-mails regarding this course should be sent to introductionphd@neuro.gu.se 

Cheating and plagiarism

It is considered plagiarism when you copy other people's texts without stating the source, or reproduce texts verbatim or almost verbatim without using quotation marks. Examples of cheating are using unauthorised aids in an exam, such as unauthorised notes. Other examples of cheating are collaboration between students in individual compulsory assignments.

No collaboration is allowed during the examination individual assignment "quiz". It is not permitted to collaborate or work in groups for individual assignments. It is also not allowed to share your own answers to exam questions with other students. All of these scenarios are considered cheating through prohibited collaboration.

As a student, it is your responsibility to take part in information about what is allowed and not allowed during, for example, exams and when you write a report.

When plagiarism is suspected the following will happen:

• The correction of the examination stops immediately and the head of department will be contacted. If suspicions for plagiarism still remains the next step will be initiated.
• The student will be called to a meeting with the examiner and the head of department to allow the student the opportunity to explain the situation.
• If suspicions for plagiarism still remains it will be reported to the vice-chancellor and handled as a disciplinary matter.

Substantiated suspicion of plagiarism will be reported to the vice-chancellor and handled as a disciplinary matter according to the University of Gothenburg’s guidelines for handling of suspected fraud and for handling of disciplinary matters.