6 ECTS credits
152 h study time
Offer 1 with catalog number 2016024BNR for all students in the 1st and 2nd semester
at
a (B) Bachelor - advanced level.
- Semester
- 1st and 2nd semester
- Enrollment based on exam contract
- Impossible
- Grading method
- Grading (scale from 0 to 20)
- Can retake in second session
- Yes
- Taught in
- Dutch
- Faculty
- Faculty of Social Sciences & SolvayBusinessSchool
- Department
- Communication Sciences
- Educational team
- Jo Renate Bauwens
(course titular)
Jana Goyvaerts
Lotte Vermeire
Sofie Vermoesen
- Activities and contact hours
- 32 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
120 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study
- Course Content
This course helps bridge year students within Communication studies to master the basic principles of scientific research and scientic writing and reporting. It takes place during the first semester. The skills that the students develop within this course should allow them to successfully write their research paper.
- Course material
- Digital course material (Required) : Handleiding Seminarie Wetenschappelijke Werkwijze, Iris Jennes
Digital course material (Required) : Slides Seminarie Wetenschappelijke Werkwijze, Iris Jennes
- Additional info
Not applicable.
- Learning Outcomes
-
General competencies
Students are expected to:
- Independently search and identify scientific literature.
- Analyse, interpret and evaluate literature in a critical way and refer correctly.
- Use a scientific writing style.
- Problematize a specific topic by mapping the existing scientific literature.
- Formulate research objectives with regard to this topic.
- Develop independently a proposal for an empirical research, based on the literature review.
- Grading
-
The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Practical Exam determines 100% of the final mark.
Within the Practical Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
- Presentation
with a relative weight of 20
which comprises 20% of the final mark.
- Paper 'State of the Art'
with a relative weight of 50
which comprises 50% of the final mark.
- Research Proposal
with a relative weight of 30
which comprises 30% of the final mark.
- Additional info regarding evaluation
Assignment 1: presentation (20% of the final grade)
Assignment 2: paper 'state of the art' (50% of the final grade)
Assignment 3: research proposal (30% of the final grade)
- Allowed unsatisfactory mark
- The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.
Academic context
This offer is part of the following study plans:
Bridging Programme Master of Science in Communication Studies: Standaard traject (only offered in Dutch)
Preparatory Programme Master of Science in Communication Studies: Standaard traject (only offered in Dutch)