| Teaching Staff
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| Language of Instruction |
Türkçe (Turkish) |
| Type Of Course |
Compulsory |
| Prerequisites |
No Pre-requisites |
| Recommended Optional Programme Component |
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| Course Objectives |
Research Methods in Social Sciences course aims to provide undergraduate students with the necessary academic equipment to facilitate academic text writing. This course is designed to bring in the basic skills to produce and consume the scientific knowledge to students in general of social sciences and specifically in political science and international relations field. In this class the meaning and the importance of a scientific approach, the scope of the literarature and how to use it, the ethics in production of scientific data and different methods and research design with with the initiation of a research question determination and application will be elaborated. |
| Course Content |
Qualitative and quantitative research methods and techniques used in Political Science and International Relations, research ethics, methodological designs on the research question and application of those designs, contribution to the literature with new scientific knowledge attained with research and efficient utilization from the existing researches. |
| Learning Outcomes (LO) |
The equipment to be given to students in this course are as follows:
1. Designing academic questions in the most basic sense,
2. Literature research, academic reading methods, classification, citation,
3. Strengthening students' understanding of ontology, epistemology and methodology in the research process through qualitative and quantitative data analysis without generating assumptions and hypotheses. |
| Mode of Delivery |
Face to face |
| Course Outline |
| Week |
Topics |
| 1. Week |
Acquaintance and Introduction |
| 2. Week |
Writing and Academic Text: What is Scientific Study? |
| 3. Week |
Research Question: Literature Study, Academic Reading |
| 4. Week |
Classification, Citation, Footnote, Bibliography |
| 5. Week |
Difference between Assumption and Hypothesis |
| 6. Week |
What are Qualitative and Quantitative Data? |
| 7. Week |
Analysis of Qualitative and Quantitative Data - I |
| 8. Week |
Analysis of Qualitative and Quantitative Data - II |
| 9. Week |
What are Ontology and Epistemology? |
| 10. Week |
Methodology - I (Positivism, Hermeneutics, Realism) |
| 11. Week |
Methodology - II (Positivism, Hermeneutics, Realism) |
| 12. Week |
Writing Essay, Report, Thesis and Academic Book - I |
| 13. Week |
Writing Essay, Report, Thesis and Academic Book - II |
| 14. Week |
General Review |
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| Assessment |
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Percentage(%) |
| Mid-term (%) |
40 |
| Quizes (%) |
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| Homeworks/Term papers (%) |
10 |
| Practice (%) |
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| Labs (%) |
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| Projects/Field Work (%) |
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| Seminars/Workshops (%) |
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| Final (%) |
50 |
| Other (%) |
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| Total(%) |
100 |
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| Course Book (s) and/or References |
- Day, Robert A. (1996), Bilimsel Bir Makale Nasıl Yazılır ve Yayımlanır, (Çev. Gülay Aşkar Altay), Ankara: Tübitak Yayınları.
- Sunar, İlkay (1979), Düşün ve Toplum. Ankara: Kültür Bakanlığı Yay. |
| Work Placement(s) |
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| The Relationship between Program Qualifications (PQ) and Course Learning Outcomes (LO) |
| PQ1 | PQ2 | PQ3 | PQ4 | PQ5 | PQ6 | PQ7 | PQ8 | PQ9 | PQ10 | PQ11 | PQ12 | PQ13 | PQ 14 | PQ 15 | PQ 16 | PQ 17 | PQ 18 | LO1 | | | | | | | 5 | 5 | | 5 | 4 | | 5 | | | | 5 | | LO2 | | | | | | | 5 | | | | | | 5 | | 5 | | 5 | | LO3 | | | | | | | 5 | | | | 5 | | 5 | | | | 5 | |
* Contribution Level : 1 Very low 2 Low 3 Medium 4 High 5 Very High |