Bachelor 2022/2023

Research Seminar: Research Design

Category 'Best Course for Career Development'

Type: Compulsory course (Political Science and World Politics)

Area of studies: Political Science

Delivered by: Department of Political Science and International Affairs

Where: Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences

When: 3 year, 1 module

Mode of studies: offline

Open to: students of all HSE University campuses

Instructors: Yury Kabanov

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
• Research Design, Research Strategies, Methods and Data

Assessment Elements

• Participation in Class Discussions
  Participation in discussions, answers to teachers' questions, solving cases, working in groups;
• Home Assignment
  A research design of the proposed term paper.
• Exam
  The exam lasts for 2 academic hours, conducted in a written form

Interim Assessment

• 2022/2023 1st module
  0.4 * Home Assignment + 0.35 * Exam + 0.25 * Participation in Class Discussions

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

Authors

• KABANOV YURIY ANDREEVICH