6 ECTS credits
155 u studietijd

Aanbieding 1 met studiegidsnummer 1021584BNR voor alle studenten in het 1e semester met een verdiepend bachelor niveau.

Semester
1e semester
Inschrijving onder examencontract
Niet mogelijk
Beoordelingsvoet
Beoordeling (0 tot 20)
2e zittijd mogelijk
Ja
Inschrijvingsvereisten
Students must have taken ‘Statistics for BE I’ and 'Introduction to Microeconomics, before they can enroll in this course.
Onderwijstaal
Engels
Faculteit
Faculteit Sociale Wetensch & SolvayBusinessSchool
Verantwoordelijke vakgroep
Business
Onderwijsteam
Ilse Scheerlinck (titularis)
Leo Van Hove
Filip Van Droogenbroeck
Michaël Pascal D Distelmans
Marco Almbauer
Onderdelen en contacturen
26 contacturen Hoorcollege
14 contacturen Werkvormen en Praktische Oef.
115 contacturen Zelfwerk en -studie
Inhoud

The course Research Methods for Business and Economics consists of:

  • a series of lectures on quantitative and qualitative research methods, delivered by course holders. Additional guest lectures may be scheduled,
  • written work.  With reference to a specific topic, students will be required to produce a search strategy and write an annotated bibliography, following the guidelines for academic writing, and compliant with the APA-referencing style.

Once a student has passed the course, s/he will have developed the skills that are required for writing a Bachelor’s paper or any other written work at a more advanced level. Ultimately, the course should prepare the student to embark on writing a Master’s thesis.

Studiemateriaal
Digitaal cursusmateriaal (Vereist) : Syllabus and slides, Canvas
Handboek (Aanbevolen) : Research Methods for Business, Sekaran & Bougie, Wiley, 9781119165552
Bijkomende info

Total average workload (155h)

Lectures/HOC: 26hrs

Tutorials/WPO: 14hrs

Preparatory work and self-study (115h)

Preparing for lectures and reading materials (30h); working on assignments (20h); preparing for tutorials (10h); reading peer-reviewed papers for tutorials (12h); attending sessions with team members for group work (3h); studying for exam and reviewing (20h); preparing for mock test and taking mock test (10h); further self-study (10h).

 

     
Leerresultaten

General Competences

After successfully completing the course, students

  • should be able to identify a research problem in economics or management and formulate a relevant and adequately underpinned research question;
  • should be able to find the related existing research results in the academic literature and report these results in a scientific and critical manner, with (correct) references and a bibliography;
  • should be able to paraphrase and synthesize the main ideas of scholarly articles;
  • should know the most important research methods in economics and management and have acquired insight into the applicability and pros and cons of these methods in a given context.
  • should know what is ethically acceptable to avoid plagiarism
  • should know what the (un)ethical aspects are of use of AI tools

Beoordelingsinformatie

De beoordeling bestaat uit volgende opdrachtcategorieën:
Examen Schriftelijk bepaalt 100% van het eindcijfer

Binnen de categorie Examen Schriftelijk dient men volgende opdrachten af te werken:

  • Schriftelijk Examen met een wegingsfactor 75 en aldus 75% van het totale eindcijfer.
  • Schriftelijk Werkstuk met een wegingsfactor 25 en aldus 25% van het totale eindcijfer.

Aanvullende info mbt evaluatie

The final grade on the course will be the result of:

  • Part 1. Written exam in January: closed-book, incl. open-ended questions; questions on an unseen peer-reviewed paper; true-false statements and/or multiple choice questions. True-false statements and/or multiple choice questions will be graded, using higher cut-off rate.
  • Part 2. Written work, consisting of assignment(s) and/or in-class work, individually or in group

Note: If in-class presentations are organized, then this grade will count towards Part 2 of the final grade.

Important: students must participate in all parts (i.e., written exam and all assignments) to obtain a final grade on the course.

Students should obtain at least 50% (or 10/20) on the written exam in order to pass the course. If the grade on the written exam is less than 50% or 10/20, then this grade will count towards the overall grade of the course.

Students who need to retake the course in second session, will be informed by the instructor about the requirements on exam and assignment(s).

Outgoing Erasmus students who follow the course need to contact the course holder at the beginning of the academic year in order to agree upon an arrangement.

Toegestane onvoldoende
Kijk in het aanvullend OER van je faculteit na of een toegestane onvoldoende mogelijk is voor dit opleidingsonderdeel.

Academische context

Deze aanbieding maakt deel uit van de volgende studieplannen:
Bachelor of Business Economics: Year 1 and 2 (enkel aangeboden in het Engels)
Bachelor of Business Economics: Year 3: Specialisation Business and Technology (enkel aangeboden in het Engels)
Bachelor of Business Economics: Year 3: Specialisation International Business (enkel aangeboden in het Engels)