Bachelor
2021/2022
Research Seminar: Research Design
Type:
Compulsory course (Political Science)
Area of studies:
Political Science
Where:
Faculty of Social Sciences
When:
2 year, 1 module
Mode of studies:
offline
Open to:
students of all HSE University campuses
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
1
Contact hours:
10
Course Syllabus
Abstract
The main goal of the discipline is to help students to prepare and write their course works and graduation theses. The 'Research Seminar' covers a range of basic topics, such as composing a research design, formulating a research problem and research question, searching for literature, reviewing, and planning research strategies. Moreover, the course helps to deal with not only term papers but academic articles and analytical reports too.
Learning Objectives
- The goal of the discipline is to help students to prepare and write their course works.
- Composing a research design.
- Dealing with literature and other sources.
- Acquiring basic skills of academic writing.
- Getting familiar with basic research methods.
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Enumerates the basic structural units of and formal requirements for the term paper and formal requirements for it.
- Knows what plagiarism is and how to avoid it
- Formulates research questions
- Finds information and literature on the subject matter of the course work
- Conducts a literature review
- Knows different types of research designs and research strategies
- Chooses the research design adequate for the solution of the research problem
Course Contents
- Basics of the Research. Research Questions
- Selecting and Overviewing Literature
- Literature Reviews
- Research Design, Research Strategies, Methods and Data
Interim Assessment
- 2021/2022 1st module0.25 * Participation in class discussions + 0.4 * Home assignments + 0.35 * Exam
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Keating, M., & Della Porta, D. (2008). Approaches and Methodologies in the Social Sciences : A Pluralist Perspective. Cambridge , New York: Cambridge University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=304674
- Knopf, J. W. (2006). Doing a Literature Review. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.6DDBE740
- Политология. Методы исследования, Мангейм, Д. Б., 1999
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Research design: Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods approaches, Creswell, J.W., 2009