Course overview
Is the job market for university graduates in Australia improving or worsening? Are youth attitudes to alcohol or drug consumption changing? This course will provide students with the basic tools to be an informed and critical user of social research methods to address important questions like these. It offers students a basic introduction to the various ways that social research is designed, carried out, and communicated. By learning how to discriminate between different methodological approaches and research methods, and the importance and complexities of social research ethics, students will develop the capacity to evaluate the methodological aspects of social research studies.
- Identifying social research topics and developing questions
- Designing social research
- Data collection, analysis and evaluation research
Course learning outcomes
- Understand the purpose of social research and its potential to investigate contemporary issues through both quantitative and qualitative approaches
- Identify the range of methods, techniques, and skills used in contemporary social research and their capacity to solve specific problems
- Critically evaluate the methodological aspects of published social research
- Locate, analyse and synthesise academic literature into a Literature Review, and develop a research question in a timely and effective manner.
Degree list
The following degrees include this course