ECTS - Research Methods
Research Methods (KAM655) Course Detail
| Course Name | Course Code | Season | Lecture Hours | Application Hours | Lab Hours | Credit | ECTS |
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| Research Methods | KAM655 | Area Elective | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| Pre-requisite Course(s) |
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| N/A |
| Course Language | Turkish |
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| Course Type | Elective Courses |
| Course Level | Ph.D. |
| Mode of Delivery | Face To Face |
| Learning and Teaching Strategies | Lecture, Discussion, Question and Answer, Drill and Practice, Problem Solving. |
| Course Lecturer(s) |
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| Course Objectives | The purpose of this course is to introduce graduate students the quantitative and qualitative research methods in social sciences. |
| Course Learning Outcomes |
The students who succeeded in this course;
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| Course Content | Qualitative and quantitative methods; research designs; research tools; SPSS; statisticals tests; area researches; epistemology. |
Weekly Subjects and Releated Preparation Studies
| Week | Subjects | Preparation |
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| 1 | Introductions; overview of course | |
| 2 | What is scientific research? What is a theory? What is a hypothesis? How to find a research question? | |
| 3 | Design and methodology, reviewing literature, theoretical frameworks | |
| 4 | Conceptualization, operationalization, measurement | |
| 5 | Designing field and ethnographic research, participant observation method | |
| 6 | Interviewing, structured and semi-structured interviews, elite interviews | |
| 7 | Content and text analysis | |
| 8 | What is an experiment? Conducting experiments in social sciences. | |
| 9 | Introduction to statistical analysis, statistical methods | |
| 10 | Introduction to statistical analysis, statistical methods | |
| 11 | Survey research | |
| 12 | Comparative methods | |
| 13 | Comparative methods | |
| 14 | Mixed methods approach to research | |
| 15 | Course overview |
Sources
| Course Book | 1. King, Gary, Robert O. Keohane, and Sidney Verba. Designing social inquiry: Scientific inference in qualitative research. Princeton university press, 2021. |
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| 2. Bernard, H. Russell, and Harvey Russell Bernard. Social research methods: Qualitative and quantitative approaches. Sage, 2013. | |
| 3. Lawrence Neuman, William. Social research methods: qualitative and quantitative approaches. Pearson, 2014. |
Evaluation System
| Requirements | Number | Percentage of Grade |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance/Participation | - | - |
| Laboratory | - | - |
| Application | - | - |
| Field Work | - | - |
| Special Course Internship | - | - |
| Quizzes/Studio Critics | - | - |
| Homework Assignments | 2 | 20 |
| Presentation | 1 | 10 |
| Project | - | - |
| Report | - | - |
| Seminar | - | - |
| Midterms Exams/Midterms Jury | 1 | 30 |
| Final Exam/Final Jury | 1 | 40 |
| Toplam | 5 | 100 |
| Percentage of Semester Work | |
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| Percentage of Final Work | 100 |
| Total | 100 |
Course Category
| Core Courses | |
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| Major Area Courses | X |
| Supportive Courses | |
| Media and Managment Skills Courses | |
| Transferable Skill Courses |
The Relation Between Course Learning Competencies and Program Qualifications
| # | Program Qualifications / Competencies | Level of Contribution | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 1 | Improving knowledge and understanding of the disciplines political science and public administration so as to enable the Ph. D. candidates to produce new knowledge on these disciplines. | |||||
| 2 | Improving knowledge and understanding in the parallel disciplines of sociology, anthropology, history etc. to create a multi-disciplinary perspective of the field of study. | |||||
| 3 | Introducing and improving knowledge and skills of qualitative and quantitative research methodologies and methods so as to create a capacity to utilize them in researches in the field of political science and public administration. | |||||
| 4 | Enabling the Ph. D. candidates to utilize their thoretical, methodological, and multi-disciplinary knowledge so as to critically understand the discussions in those fields, and to understand the gaps in the literature concerned. | |||||
| 5 | Improving academic writing skills so as to enable the Ph. D. candidates to write their dissertations or research papers in a suitable manner. | |||||
ECTS/Workload Table
| Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Total Workload |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Hours (Including Exam Week: 16 x Total Hours) | 14 | 3 | 42 |
| Laboratory | |||
| Application | |||
| Special Course Internship | |||
| Field Work | |||
| Study Hours Out of Class | 4 | 8 | 32 |
| Presentation/Seminar Prepration | 1 | 8 | 8 |
| Project | |||
| Report | |||
| Homework Assignments | 2 | 4 | 8 |
| Quizzes/Studio Critics | |||
| Prepration of Midterm Exams/Midterm Jury | 1 | 15 | 15 |
| Prepration of Final Exams/Final Jury | 1 | 20 | 20 |
| Total Workload | 125 | ||