ECTS - Research Methodology and Communication Skills
Research Methodology and Communication Skills (MDES600) Course Detail
| Course Name | Course Code | Season | Lecture Hours | Application Hours | Lab Hours | Credit | ECTS |
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| Research Methodology and Communication Skills | MDES600 | 1. Semester | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| Pre-requisite Course(s) |
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| N/A |
| Course Language | English |
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| Course Type | Compulsory Departmental Courses |
| Course Level | Natural & Applied Sciences Master's Degree |
| Mode of Delivery | Face To Face |
| Learning and Teaching Strategies | . |
| Course Lecturer(s) |
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| Course Objectives | The objective of this course is to improve the research and communication skills of students early in their graduate program to help them better plan, conduct and present their research and thesis work. |
| Course Learning Outcomes |
The students who succeeded in this course;
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| Course Content | Rigorous, scholarly research, particularly theses or dissertations. Literature review, surveys, meta-analysis, empirical research design, formulating research questions, theory building, qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis methods, validity, reliability, triangulation, building evidences, writing research proposal |
Weekly Subjects and Releated Preparation Studies
| Week | Subjects | Preparation |
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| 1 | Introduction; What is Research? Why to do research? | Lecture Notes |
| 2 | Identification of a research problem | Lecture Notes |
| 3 | Managing and Planning Research | Lecture Notes |
| 4 | Literature mining, taxonomy | Lecture Notes |
| 5 | Data gathering and data management | Lecture Notes |
| 6 | Technical Writing | Lecture Notes |
| 7 | Writing a research/thesis proposal | Lecture Notes |
| 8 | Ethics in Research | Lecture Notes |
| 9 | Communication Skills | Lecture Notes |
| 10 | Scientists must speak | Lecture Notes |
| 11 | How to present | Lecture Notes |
| 12 | Student Presentations | - |
| 13 | Student Presentations | - |
| 14 | Student Presentations | - |
| 15 | Student Presentations | - |
| 16 | Student Presentations | - |
Sources
| Other Sources | 1. Robert L. Peters. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Getting What You Came For: The Smart Student's Guide to Earning a Master's or Ph.D. (Revised Edition), 1997. |
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| 2. Zina O’Leary, The Essential Guide to Doing Research, Sage Publications, London, 2004. | |
| 3. Bruce A. Thyer, Preparing Research Articles, Oxford University Press, London, 2008. | |
| 4. Paul Oliver, The Student’s Guide to Research Ethics, Open University Press, Philadelphia, 2003. | |
| 5. James E. Mauch and Namgi Park, Guide to the Successful Thesis and Dissertation: A Handbook for Students and Faculty, 5th Ed., Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York, 2003. | |
| 6. D. Eric Walters and Gale Climenson Walters, Scientists Must Speak, Rutledge, London, 2002. | |
| 7. Owen Hargie (Ed.), The Handbook of Communication Skills, 3rd Ed., Rutledge, London, 2006. |
Evaluation System
| Requirements | Number | Percentage of Grade |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance/Participation | - | - |
| Laboratory | - | - |
| Application | 1 | 20 |
| Field Work | - | - |
| Special Course Internship | - | - |
| Quizzes/Studio Critics | - | - |
| Homework Assignments | 3 | 30 |
| Presentation | 3 | 20 |
| Project | - | - |
| Report | - | - |
| Seminar | 1 | 30 |
| Midterms Exams/Midterms Jury | - | - |
| Final Exam/Final Jury | - | - |
| Toplam | 8 | 100 |
| Percentage of Semester Work | 100 |
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| Percentage of Final Work | 0 |
| Total | 100 |
Course Category
| Core Courses | X |
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| Major Area Courses | |
| 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 | An ability to apply advanced knowledge of computing and/or informatics to solve software engineering problems. | |||||
| 2 | Develop solutions using different technologies, software architectures and life-cycle approaches. | |||||
| 3 | An ability to design, implement and evaluate a software system, component, process or program by using modern techniques and engineering tools required for software engineering practices. | |||||
| 4 | An ability to gather/acquire, analyze, interpret data and make decisions to understand software requirements. | X | ||||
| 5 | Skills of effective oral and written communication and critical thinking about a wide range of issues arising in the context of working constructively on software projects. | X | ||||
| 6 | An ability to access information in order to follow recent developments in science and technology and to perform scientific research or implement a project in the software engineering domain. | X | ||||
| 7 | An understanding of professional, legal, ethical and social issues and responsibilities related to Software Engineering. | X | ||||
| 8 | Skills in project and risk management, awareness about importance of entrepreneurship, innovation and long-term development, and recognition of international standards of excellence for software engineering practices standards and methodologies. | X | ||||
| 9 | An understanding about the impact of Software Engineering solutions in a global, environmental, societal and legal context while making decisions. | X | ||||
| 10 | Promote the development, adoption and sustained use of standards of excellence for software engineering practices. | |||||
ECTS/Workload Table
| Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Total Workload |
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| Course Hours (Including Exam Week: 16 x Total Hours) | |||
| Laboratory | |||
| Application | 1 | 30 | 30 |
| Special Course Internship | 1 | 20 | 20 |
| Field Work | |||
| Study Hours Out of Class | 16 | 2 | 32 |
| Presentation/Seminar Prepration | 2 | 10 | 20 |
| Project | |||
| Report | |||
| Homework Assignments | 3 | 8 | 24 |
| Quizzes/Studio Critics | |||
| Prepration of Midterm Exams/Midterm Jury | |||
| Prepration of Final Exams/Final Jury | |||
| Total Workload | 126 | ||