Academics
Master of Public Administration
Social Research Methods
Release Date: 2017-09-21| Course Name | Social Research Methods | Course Number | ||||||||
| Course Semester | Course Time | 36 | Credit | 2 | ||||||
| Course Type | □Obligatory Courses ☑ Elective Courses | |||||||||
| Institute | School of Public Management | Applicable Major | MPA | |||||||
| Assessment method | ☑Examination □ Test | |||||||||
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| Teacher | Muhua Lin Qinglin Zhang Fang Wang | |||||||||
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(1) Can make a specific public management issues into a "research question"; (2) Can develop a research strategy, and design a research project to answer to research question; (3) Can take part in the social research, which involves qualitative and quantitative discussion; (4) Can use the skills and knowledge from the course to evaluate someone's research design and achievements. |
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Lecture1 Introduction Lecture2 The process of Social Research and the Theory Construction Lecture3 The Research Topics, Research Design and Measurement Lecture4 The Logics of Sample and Social Survey Lecture5 The Quantitative and Qualitative Data analysis Lecture6 The Research Report |
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| Outline Designer | Muhua Lin | Date | 2015.10.10 | |||||||