Courses

Research methods

Course overview

This course prepares students for their Bachelor’s thesis by combining IT and language skills to conduct research, manage sources, write and present professionally using LaTeX, and communicate findings clearly and accurately.

Course content

This course prepares you for the Bachelor’s thesis. We pay attention to subject-specific matters on the one hand, but also to clear communication on the other:

IT component:

  • formulating a research question
  • working with the LaTeX typesetting system
  • carrying out a literature review
  • maintaining a bibliographic database
  • research methods
  • reporting with LaTeX

Language component:

  • structuring a text for a professional audience
  • using a professional writing style
  • avoiding typical language errors
  • critically approaching sources and referring to them correctly
  • writing an abstract
  • giving a good research presentation

Learning outcomes

The student is able to:

  • refer correctly.
  • explain quality criteria of professional literature.
  • explain the characteristics of a good research question.
  • explain the different research methods and distinguish them according to suitability.
  • explain and distinguish the different types of research.
  • format a document in a correctly structured manner and provide it with references using a text typesetting system.
  • write a structured text.
  • select a research method depending on the problem definition.
  • carry out a research method in function of the problem definition.
  • formulate a research question and test it against the characteristics of a good research question.
  • split a research question into concrete sub-questions and associated objectives.
  • explain the importance of correct referencing.
  • explain characteristics of a structured text.
  • distinguish between methods for collecting qualitative data.
  • distinguish and apply methods to collect quantitative data.
  • draw the essence from professional literature.
  • consult professional literature in relation to a specific research domain.
  • distinguish between different types of sources.
  • adjust his search strategy according to the search results.

Enrollment

This course is currently not open for enrollment.

Course information

Category

Transversal skills

Format

Online

Target groups

U!REKA students

Academic year

Starting month

Language

English

Duration​

A semester

Organising institution​

HOGENT University of Applied Sciences and Arts

Places reserved for U!REKA participants​

Limited

Assessment

Online

Credit/degree/certificate

4 ECTS credits

Course fee

None

Prerequisites

N/A
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