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| IDEZ6970 | Research in Social Sciences-II | 3+0+0 | ECTS:7.5 | | Year / Semester | Spring Semester | | Level of Course | Third Cycle | | Status | Compulsory | | Department | DEPARTMENT of WESTERN LANGUAGES and LITERATURE | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 3 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | -- | | Co-Lecturer | Asst. Prof.Dr.Mustafa Zeki ÇİRAKİ | | Language of instruction | | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | describe the key components of social research
develop skills and knowledge about quantitative and qualitative social
research
identify criteria used to evaluate the quality of social research.
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| Programme Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | CTPO : Contribution to programme outcomes, TOA :Type of assessment (1: written exam, 2: Oral exam, 3: Homework assignment, 4: Laboratory exercise/exam, 5: Seminar / presentation, 6: Term paper), PO : Learning Outcome | | |
| This course is designed to introduce doctoral and graduate students to the process of scientific research in the social sciences. It is not just about ?research methods? -empirical data collection and analysis but about the entire ?research process? from start to end but also about more important issues in research such as theorizing and thinking like a researcher, which often constitute prerequisites of empirical research. The course also deals with essential concepts, and does complementary readings by summarizing all important concepts.
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | Thinking Like a Researcher and the Research Process | | | Week 2 | Theories of Research in Social Sciences | | | Week 3 | Thinking Like a Researcher and the Research Process | | | Week 4 | Research Design | | | Week 5 | Measurement of Constructs, Scale Reliability and Validity and Sampling | | | Week 6 | Survey Research, Experimental Research , Case Research, Interpretive Research | | | Week 7 | Qualitative Analysis, Quantitative Analysis: Descriptive Statistics, Quantitative
Analysis: Inferential Statistics
| | | Week 8 | Seminar Week | | | Week 9 | What is literature, what is a text? Genre, text type, and discourse, Primary and secondary sources | | | Week 10 | Major genres in textual studies, Fiction, Poetry, Drama, Film | | | Week 11 | Theoretical approaches to literature: Text-oriented approaches, Author-oriented
approaches, Reader-oriented approaches, Context-oriented approaches, Literary critique or evaluation
| | | Week 12 | General literary terminology, Authors and works, Literary theory | | | Week 13 | Works on specific areas of literary theory | | | Week 14 | Writing scholarly papers | | | |
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