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◄Faculty of Business and Economics►

COURSE INFORMATION

AA0X7001 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
4 Credits
Learning Outcomes At the end of the course, students are able to:

(1) Examine the logic of scientific discovery and the novelty
in research.
(2) Evaluate the usage of inductive and deductive research.
(3) Compare the different types of research methodologies.
(4) Formulate a research proposal

Synopsis of Course Using examples from past research and methodologies
Contents across 4 disciplines (economics, applied statistics,
development studies and politics), this course seeks to
examine in its entirety the philosophy and methodology of
research so as to help equip students with a better
understanding of how to undertake research, analyse data,
and write scholarly and policy papers. Following a sequential
exposition of the philosophical underpinnings of research and
methodology, and the procedures of data collection,
estimation and interpretation, the course introduces all the
main current methodologies as well as qualitative and
quantitative tools of data analysis.
Lectures will be supplemented with a critical examination of
the methodological frameworks used in selected leading
publications and by leading scholars from inter/disciplinary
fields.
In class lessons will be revisited towards the end of the course
through a careful selection of case studies from multiple
disciplines (tier 1 journal publications from economics, applied
statistics, dev studies and politics). This way, students will
have a broad introduction to various ways in which data,
methodologies, software and methods are combined in
academic research. The emphasis will be on methodological
debates and diversity within social sciences.

Equally, they will receive practical lessons on how to handle
discipline-specific big data sets.
Lastly, they will receive hands-on training on complete
research proposal developments applying creative and critical
thinking using problem sets

Assessment Weightage Continuous Assessment: 100%
Final Examination: None

Medium of Instruction English

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