Research and Development Skills (3cr)

Objectives

Students obtains skills to:

-understand the difference between common knowledge and scientific knowledge
-read research papers and understand research results and findings
-analyse the validity and reliability of sources
-involve critical thinking in the review of the knowledge and make analytical observations
-set a research problem having become familiarized with a concept analysis of the phenomenon
-has an understanding of a qualitative and a quantitative approach method, a participating action reaserch method, and methods for development or project-based work
-employ a range of information acquisition methods and methods of analysis
-make and report on conclusions and carry out them
-involve ethical and moral viewpoints, employ the skills and knowledge in an ethical manner and review the rightness of decisions made in questions related to working life
-bring up viewpoints even in an international environment

Content

-common knowledge and reasearch knowledge as fundaments for professional skills
-reflection
-concept analysis and research problem
-from scientific knowledge into work principles
-definition of concepts
-research fundamentals
-information acquisition methods
-methods of information analysis
-reasearch ethics and ethical thinking in questions related to working life

The items in the course contents list may carry different weights in different course implementations.