Offered each year, the course is designed to enable advanced students who are at the research threshold to gain the competence they need in developing their research interests and questions into research topics. The course should help them to acquire fundamental knowledge of the logic of research across any specific disciplinary boundaries, and addresses students dealing with Intercultural Studies, English Studies, or other humanities. Since the identification of a research topic is a sensitive challenge that many students find especially difficult, the goal is the building of ability to pursue lines of inquiry.
This course component is designed to offer an introduction to research with some fundamental consideration of method. Major topics will include introduction to research methods, exemplified in terms of grounded theory and cultural studies; theory of knowledge; the logic of scientific discovery, and the structure of scientific revolutions. Individual students’ questions and problems of understanding will form an especially important part of the course contents. At each stage, students will be encouraged to speak about their own pathway toward research and to share their experience as well as their problems. Members and auditors are expected to have read the required materials, at least cursorily, before the course sessions begin (available from the SISU Intercultural Institute).

Offered each year, the course is designed to enable advanced students who are at the research threshold to gain the competence they need in developing their research interests and questions into research topics. The course should help them to acquire fundamental knowledge of the logic of research across any specific disciplinary boundaries, and addresses students dealing with Intercultural Studies, English Studies, or other humanities. Since the identification of a research topic is a sensitive challenge that many students find especially difficult, the goal is the building of ability to pursue lines of inquiry.
This course component is designed to offer an introduction to research with some fundamental consideration of method. Major topics will include introduction to research methods, exemplified in terms of grounded theory and cultural studies; theory of knowledge; the logic of scientific discovery, and the structure of scientific revolutions. Individual students’ questions and problems of understanding will form an especially important part of the course contents. At each stage, students will be encouraged to speak about their own pathway toward research and to share their experience as well as their problems. Members and auditors are expected to have read the required materials, at least cursorily, before the course sessions begin (available from the SISU Intercultural Institute).

Offered each year, the course is designed to enable advanced students who are at the research threshold to gain the competence they need in developing their research interests and questions into research topics. The course should help them to acquire fundamental knowledge of the logic of research across any specific disciplinary boundaries, and addresses students dealing with Intercultural Studies, English Studies, or other humanities. Since the identification of a research topic is a sensitive challenge that many students find especially difficult, the goal is the building of ability to pursue lines of inquiry.
This course component is designed to offer an introduction to research with some fundamental consideration of method. Major topics will include introduction to research methods, exemplified in terms of grounded theory and cultural studies; theory of knowledge; the logic of scientific discovery, and the structure of scientific revolutions. Individual students’ questions and problems of understanding will form an especially important part of the course contents. At each stage, students will be encouraged to speak about their own pathway toward research and to share their experience as well as their problems. Members and auditors are expected to have read the required materials, at least cursorily, before the course sessions begin (available from the SISU Intercultural Institute).

Offered each year, the course is designed to enable advanced students who are at the research threshold to gain the competence they need in developing their research interests and questions into research topics. The course should help them to acquire fundamental knowledge of the logic of research across any specific disciplinary boundaries, and addresses students dealing with Intercultural Studies, English Studies, or other humanities. Since the identification of a research topic is a sensitive challenge that many students find especially difficult, the goal is the building of ability to pursue lines of inquiry.
This course component is designed to offer an introduction to research with some fundamental consideration of method. Major topics will include introduction to research methods, exemplified in terms of grounded theory and cultural studies; theory of knowledge; the logic of scientific discovery, and the structure of scientific revolutions. Individual students’ questions and problems of understanding will form an especially important part of the course contents. At each stage, students will be encouraged to speak about their own pathway toward research and to share their experience as well as their problems. Members and auditors are expected to have read the required materials, at least cursorily, before the course sessions begin (available from the SISU Intercultural Institute).