- Docente: Paul Matthew Loveless
- Credits: 6
- SSD: GSPS-02/A
- Language: English
- Moduli: Paul Matthew Loveless (Modulo 1) Alice Lacchei (Modulo 2)
- Teaching Mode: In-person learning (entirely or partially) (Modulo 1); In-person learning (entirely or partially) (Modulo 2)
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in European Studies (cod. 6653)
Learning outcomes
This course aims to familiarize students with their research design and bachelor thesis research. Students will learn basic instrument of academic research in social sciences. They will learn how to find and how to use primary and secondary sources, how to review the literature related to specific topics and themes. The course aims to strengthen students' ability to elaborate different types of academic writings, with particular attention to their structure and formal characteristics, communicative effectiveness, and critical contents. At the end of the course, students will acquire the necessary competences to write executive summaries, research reports, reviews, articles, and literature reviews for specialized academic journals.
Course contents
Research Design is a means to organize the theoretical and analytical elements of a piece of research. In order to provide evidence for your research question and demonstrate sufficient evaluation, a research design is integral to the investigative process. In the Social Sciences, there are many competing attempts to explain a process, a mechanism, or a class of events. Despite the often-bewildering number of studies, many fail to advance our common knowledge through under-specified or under-developed research designs. The goal of this course is to develop students’ awareness and abilities in considering, building, and evaluating research designs not only for their own thesis and subsequent work but also for others’ research efforts.
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