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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 Contents Using examples from past research and methodologies
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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