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State Final Certification

Final State Certification Info-2024:

  • State Exam Committee for the Final State Certification (Programme 'Business and Politics in Modern Asia'): 

    State Examination Board (DOCX, 20 Kb) 

  • Head of the State Exam Committee for the Final State Certification (Programme 'Business and Politics in Modern Asia'): Yana V. LeksiutinaDoctor of Political Sciences, professor, chair of American studies, Saint-Petersburg State University 
  • Final State Certification Schedule: 

Schedule (DOCX, 16 Kb) 

  •  Faculty Appeal Committee for the Final State Certification: 

    Chairperson – Polina E. Yakovleva, senior lecturer, Department of Public Administration

    Committee members:

    -         Dr. Mariia V. Rubtсova, Doctor of Sciences, Professor, Department of Public Administration, St. Petersburg School of Social Sciences

    -         Dr. Dmitry Goncharov, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and International Affairs,St. Petersburg School of Social

    -         Natalia V. Kolesnik, Candidate of Sciences, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology,St. Petersburg School of Social Sciences

    Secretary – Nadezhda E. Oreshenkova, the Head, Undergraduate Programmes Curriculum Support (Public Administration), St. Petersburg School of Social Sciences 

Documents:

Final State Certification Programme-2024:

Guidelines for preparation and defense of theses for students of the programme (DOCX, 50 Kb) 

How to apply for a Term paper/Thesis topic:

Please note that the Term Papers and Theses topics approval has been moved to the LMS system since this academic year! You need to talk about your topic with the supervisor and then make a topic request via LMS Course Themes Module.

Download instruction 

Please do not forget that your request shall be approved by your Supevisor via his/her LMS account.

How to change the Term Paper/Thesis topic:

Please note that the Term Papers and Theses topics change requests has been moved to the LMS system sine this academic year! You need to talk about your topic with the supervisor and then make a topic request via LMS Course Themes Module.

Download instruction 

Please do not forget that your request shall be approved by your Supevisor via his/her LMS account.

Thesis Request Forms:

Thesis Deadlines 2023/2024:

ModuleDeadlineEvent
2nd moduleNovember 1Deadline for Theses Topics Applications via LMS system
November 8Subject of MA Thesis and supervisor approved by the Academic Supervisor
November 20Subject of MA Thesis and supervisor approved by the Academic Council of MA Programme
December 13Deadline for submitting the first version of the first chapter (at least 30000 characters) to the supervisor
4th moduleApril 8, 18.00External Reviewer Appointment
April 8, 23.59Deadline for submission the first version of thesis for the Preliminary defense
April 12, 15, 16Preliminary defense of MA Thesis
April 22, 18.00Deadline for submission a request for changes in the title / supervisor change of the master thesis
May 17, 18.00Final draft of MA Thesis submission to LMS system
May 24Deadline for placing the Theses' Supervisors' Reviews
May 28Deadline for placing the Theses' and External Reviewers' Reviews
June 10 , 11, 13Defense of MA Thesis

Previous Years Final State Certifications:

 
FINAL STATE CERTIFICATION PROGRAMME-2023:

Guidelines for preparation and defense of theses for students of the programme (PDF, 629 Kb) 

State Exam Committee (DOCX, 20 Kb) 

Appeal Committee (DOCX, 24 Kb) 

Schedule of final state certification (DOCX, 17 Kb) 

FINAL STATE CERTIFICATION PROGRAMME-2022:

Guidelines for preparation and defense of theses for students of the programme 

FINAL STATE CERTIFICATION-2022 INFO:

State Exam Committee (DOCX, 19 Kb) 
Appeal Committee (DOCX, 24 Kb) 
Schedule of final state certification (DOCX, 16 Kb) 

Final State Certification Programme-2020:
Final State Certification-2020 Info:
Final State Certification Programme-2019:
Final State Certification-2019 Info: