| Research Methodology

The course begins with an exposition on complexity involved in understanding the nature of social world and different assumptions in epistemology and ontology to understand this world. After familiarizing with different traditions of social science research, course participants are taken through stages of research. Here, they will be encouraged to read original research writings (journal articles, dissertations completed etc). Then they learn formulating research problem, research question, Design aspects of research, Hypothesis testing, sampling methods, analyzing different forms of data.

This is a course focused on skills of research, which they will apply in different courses, CLP and most importantly in the second year when they write dissertation.

During the field segment in October, students have applied different data gathering tools. This course will build on as reflexive exercise on how to administer those tools.

This is a two credit course organized in four modules.