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Cursus: GKMV16024
GKMV16024
Preparing Social Research
Cursus informatie
CursuscodeGKMV16024
Studiepunten (EC)5
Cursusdoelen
This course aims to provide you with the basic knowledge and skills that you will need in order to prepare yourself for doing social research in the second semester of this academic year.  Specifically:
 
- learning to narrow progressively from a broad TOPIC to a FOCUSED RESEARCH PUZZLE;
- understanding how to use theories and concepts as 'analytical lenses' through which to define the research puzzle in more detail
- designing a research 'method' in order to 'operationalise' the research puzzle from a statement of abstract ideas into a systematic and concrete plan for data collection
- discussing aspects of Research Design
- critically considering and discussing the applications, limitations, and implications of certain data collection techniques that you most likely will employ when doing your research, particularly in relation to the research context

 
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Career orientation
Acquisition of skills pertaining to how to prepare, design, conduct, and present a (research) project; writing and analytical skills 
 
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