Information on individual educational components (ECTS-Course descriptions) per semester

  
Degree programme:Contextual Studies
Type of degree:Intern
 Special-Time
 Winter Semester 2023
  

Course unit titleResearch Project: Social Sciences
Course unit code800101023200
Language of instructionGerman / English
Type of course unit (compulsory, optional)Elective
Semester when the course unit is deliveredWinter Semester 2023
Teaching hours per week4
Year of study2023
Level of course unit (e.g. first, second or third cycle)First Cycle (Bachelor)
Number of ECTS credits allocated6
Name of lecturer(s)Erika GESER-ENGLEITNER
Hubert MATT


Prerequisites and co-requisites

Communicative and social competence, autonomy, basic knowledge in statistics (central and spread measures); costs for the survey phase abroad must be borne individually and amount to a total of approx. 1,000 EUR; the research camp will take place during the lecture-free period in summer.

Course content

Scientific positions, qualitative and quantitative methods of social research, research design, research planning

Learning outcomes

During two consecutive semesters students

  • participate in a research project which is organised in the form of a research camp abroad in the summer semester,
  • acquire and improve their competencies of theoretical and methodological know-how of social science research on the basis of a real example,
  • define individual learning and working aims in cooperation with the coach,
  • plan the application of social science research methods,
  • implement the evaluations and documentation depending on the status of their project.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Second semester of a two semester lasting research training inside the Research Group Empirical Social Sciences for one student with previous application and selection. Method: guided self learning, realisation of a social science study.

Assessment methods and criteria

Level of defined learning and working targets with reference to previous knowledge of the student - documentation of learning outcome and project realisation.

Comment

This module constitutes the second cycle of the module "Research Project: Social Sciences“ which has been started under the same title in the precedent summer term.

Recommended or required reading

Examples for possible projects can be found under http://www.fhv.at/aktuelles/news/buchpublikation/no_cache=1&cHash=24dcd6a40c6207bde0b1952363690d7c and in the miscellany: Fredersdorf, Frederic (Ed.) (2015): Anwendungsorientierte Sozial- und Sozialarbeitsforschung in Vorarlberg. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. Wiesbaden.

Further readings:

Atteslander, A. (132010); Methoden der empirischen Sozialforschung. ESV. Berlin

Diekmann, A. (42007): Empirische Sozialforschung - Grundlagen, Methoden, Anwendungen. Rowohlt. Reinbek

Hug, T. & Pospeschill, M. (2010): Empirisch forschen. UTB. München u.a.

Lamnek, S. & Krell, C. (62016): Qualitative Sozialforschung: Mit Online-Materialien. Beltz. Weinheim

Pospeschill, M. (2010): Testtheorie, Testkonstruktion, Testevaluation. UTB. München u.a.

Mode of delivery (face-to-face, distance learning)

Coaching, instruction, self learning

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