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
This open course uses English-language learning materials and is designed as a distance-learning format. You can expect: group work (collaboration with local student(s)), including an oral presentation and defence. An individual exam, taken in the ANS software environment during the official exam period.
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
Course information
Category
Transversal skills
Format
Online
Target groups
U!REKA students
Academic year
Starting month
Language
English
Duration
A semester (spring semester)
Contact
Organising institution
HOGENT University of Applied Sciences and Arts
Places reserved for U!REKA participants
Limited
Assessment
Online: oral presentation and defence, an individual exam, taken in the ANS software environment during the official exam period.
Credit/degree/certificate
4 ECTS credits
Course fee
None
Prerequisites
N/A
Level
Bachelor