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SoSe 23: Advanced Research Design and Methods

Mirjam Dageförde

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This course serves as a preparation or training for crucial aspects of students’ master thesis or internships at research institutes. If there is one thing you should have learned in the master's program, it should be how to identify and conduct excellent academic research. You should be able to assess the state of the existing literature, identify research questions of interest, formulate strategies to answer them, know the methodological tools with which to conduct the research, and write up the results so that they can contribute to existing knowledge.

The target group of this class are MA Students who are about to register for their master thesis or who are in the process of writing them. The aims of the course are to strengthen students’ research design, to sharpen research question and hypotheses and to improve methodological approaches for diverging research questions. The class will use examples from social sciences and discuss current research of students, the course will familiarize you with current standards of research in social sciences. Although the course is not in itself a lecture on statistical methods, it also refers to quantitative methods.

Course Objectives

Knowledge of the elements and relevance of a research design
Produce a rigorous and precise research design
Formulate research questions & hypotheses
Individual and collective components

Academic Integrity
This course is based on the principles of academic integrity established by Freie Universität Berlin. Academic dishonesty will not be tolerated. All documents submitted must be your own work and sources must be properly cited Schließen

Literaturhinweise

Paul Kellstedt and Guy Whitten (2018): The Fundamentals of Political Science Research. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Dimiter Toshkov (2016): Research Design. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

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14 Termine

Regelmäßige Termine der Lehrveranstaltung

Di, 14:00 - 16:00 14 Termine

Di, 18.04.2023 14:00 - 16:00

Dozenten:
Dr. Mirjam Dageförde