- Code
- COM 401
- Name
- Advanced Research Methods I
- Semester
- 1
- Lecture hours
- 3.00
- Seminar hours
- 0.00
- Laborator hours
- 0.00
- Credits
- 3.00
- ECTS
- 6.00
- Description
-
This course intends the application in practice of the knowledges gained in “Advanced Researching Methods” during the selection and classification of materials of a study or thesis. Problems faced during the preparation of thesis and the solution ways. It also intends practice of researching techniques and methods
- Objectives
-
Supply of neccessary informations for master and doctoral students relating regularly labor, selection and classification of materials during preparation of a study case or thesis. Problems faced during preparation of thesis and the solution ways. Researching techniques and methods. Gathering and classification of data.
- Java
- Tema
- 1
- Presentation of the course structure, bibliography and general concepts
- 2
- Important elements for the preparation of the thesis and research projects
- 3
- Different epistemological views on scientific research
- 4
- Pozitivist epistemology in social sciences.
- 5
- Studying methods in pozitivist methodology.
- 6
- Structure of a scientific paper in social sciences
- 7
- Conventional epistemology
- 8
- Midterm Exam
- 9
- Intertextual role in a scientific paper
- 10
- About the problem of bibliographic references in the scientific paper
- 11
- About the construction of a questionnaire in the social sciences
- 12
- Writing of research files at theoretical and developing work plan
- 13
- Research ethics issues, plagiarism, quoting and original work report
- 14
- General Discussion about the problems of research by students
- 15
- Talking with groups of students about the way of a scientific paper construction
- 16
- Final Exam
- 1
- Student becomes familiar with the way of designing a scientific paper
- 2
- The student gets to know how to build the structure of a work in terms of the volume of parts within it
- 3
- Students become acquainted with the attitude that should keep to bibliography and citations within and at the end of the paper
- Quantity Percentage Total percent
- Midterms
- 1 30% 30%
- Quizzes
- 0 0% 0%
- Projects
- 0 0% 0%
- Term projects
- 0 0% 0%
- Laboratories
- 0 0% 0%
- Class participation
- 0 0% 0%
- Total term evaluation percent
- 30%
- Final exam percent
- 70%
- Total percent
- 100%
- Quantity Duration (hours) Total (hours)
- Course duration (including exam weeks)
- 16 3 48
- Off class study hours
- 14 5 70
- Duties
- 0 6 0
- Midterms
- 1 10 10
- Final exam
- 1 10 10
- Other
- 0 0 0
- Total workLoad
- 138
- Total workload / 25 (hours)
- 5.52
- ECTS
- 6.00