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[HIS204] Research Methods in Social Sciences (history)
Instruction Language
English
Course Description
This course provides students with a solid foundation in scientific thinking and analytical inquiry, enabling them to uncover cause and effect relationships underlying social reality and to examine human behavior, social processes and political decisions in a critical and systematic manner, while also explaining how knowledge is produced in the social sciences, how academic research is planned, how research questions are formulated, how data are collected, analyzed and interpreted and how results are presented, all through practical and illustrative examples that allow students to understand the research process in depth; the course introduces different research traditions, including qualitative, quantitative and mixed approaches, and teaches students to compare these approaches, understand their respective strengths and limitations and select appropriate methods according to research goals, while at the same time emphasizing ethical principles, the role and positionality of the researcher and social responsibility, thereby providing students with both theoretical knowledge and a reflective scientific approach, and enabling them not only to conduct academic research but also to analyze real world arguments and social problems on an evidence based basis, think critically with facts and propose informed solutions, making this course a foundational component for future diplomats, policymakers, educators and researchers by shaping their analytical mindset and strengthening their commitment to evidence based reasoning.
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