A 1-Credit Research Method Course co-sponsored by the SII and the School of English Studies
活动介绍:Offered each year by visiting professors, 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.
The course 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).
Research Methodology Courses: Rationale and Sponsor
课程系列介绍:As a cooperating partner with the School of English Studies, School of Journalism and Communication, China Studies and other doctoral programs, the SISU Intercultural Institute (SII) is committed to developing research skills and methodological rigor among our faculty, PhD, and MA post-graduate students across the campus toward interdisciplinary collaboration. The SII was instituted in conjunction with hosting the first International Intercultural Research Methods Conference in China, September 23, 2006. Each year, through our national High-End Foreign Expert Group project or via exchange agreements with various overseas universities, we recruit experienced scholars to SISU to teach specific research skills toward the better design, development, analysis, and drafting of publishable papers or competitive research projects.
This 2017 spring semester we are pleased to be hosting three groups of scholars, each offering a 1-credit course in their specialty, (1) starting with textual based research, moving on to (2) the development of good research questions, lines of inquiry and design, and then (3) concluding with the three main quantitative methods and approaches used in intergroup communication studies. Whatever your research interests or focus, we hope that doctoral students and faculty members will find at least one of the approaches to research methods attractive, helpful, and developmental.