ARS602 RESEARCH METHODS AND ETHICS IN AREA STUDIES
| Course Code: |
8150602 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): |
3(3-0) |
| ECTS Credit: |
8.0 |
| Department: |
Area Studies |
| Language of Instruction: |
English |
| Level of Study: |
Graduate |
| Course Coordinator: |
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| Offered Semester: |
Fall or Spring Semesters. |
Course Content
This course aims to provide the students a general assessment of qualitative research methods. It will present the students various qualitative methods involved in social scientific research as well as offer awareness as to how these methods are related to broader social scientific issues. By presenting a variety of methods, the course will encourage the students to reflect upon these methods and their appropriateness in different research contexts. It will proceed with assignments asking the students to analyze different methods used in the prominent works of area studies. It will also include assignments that will demand from the student a review of the use of several research methods for an original topic of their choosing. The course will hence encourage reflective thinking both on methodology in area studies as well as on the practice of some of the methods.
