Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
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4313402 Psychosocial Research and Intervention | OT | 0 | 1 |
There are no prerequisites.
At the end of the module, the student will be able to:
- Differentiate between methodology, methods and research techniques
- Identify traditions of qualitative research in the social sciences
- Differentiate quantitative research methods from qualitative methods
- Identify the bases of ethnographic, interactionist and linguistic methods
- Collect relevant information using different information collection techniques
- Analyse and interpret information
- Use resources to guarantee the quality and credibility of qualitative research
- Carry out a research design with qualitative methods
The module deals with the following topics:
• Approaching qualitative research in Social Sciences
• Theoretical and conceptual foundations of qualitative methods
• Discursive turn
• Narrative turn
• Ethnographic turn
• Research design: what to look at and how to look
• Analysis of research proposals
A. Face-to-face learning (in the classroom):
Teacher:
- Reading assignments
- Presentation of basic contents
- Organisation of class discussions
Students:
- Analyse assigned readings
- Prepare questions in relation to their own research interests
- Presentation of group work
- Answer to questions by students and lecturers
- Argue one's own theoretical / methodological / ethical / political stance
B. Supervised teaching - learning activities (outside the classroom):
- Tutorials
- Organise bibliographic search based on student's research interests.
C. Autonomous learning activities (outside the classroom)
- Gathering and systematising academic references
- Studying the recommended references and those found
- Systematization, summary and analysis of the information collected
- Personal study
- Teamwork
- Theoretical and methodological integration
- Writing conclusions and recommendations from the research
- Preparation of research papers and reports
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Class debate and practical exercises | 10 | 0.4 | 4, 1, 6 |
Presentation of basic contents | 20 | 0.8 | 2, 3, 5, 4, 1 |
Type: Supervised | |||
Group Tutorials | 10.5 | 0.42 | 5, 4, 1, 6 |
Individual Tutorials | 14.5 | 0.58 | 2, 3, 5, 4, 1 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Dissertations | 40 | 1.6 | 2, 3, 5, 4, 1, 6, 7 |
Reading of texts | 25 | 1 | 2, 3, 5, 4, 1 |
Search and systematization of bibliographic information | 15 | 0.6 | 6, 7 |
Team work | 15 | 0.6 | 2, 3, 4, 1, 6 |
Marking:
Learning Outcomes:
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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EV1. Assistance and active participation | 10% | 0 | 0 | 4, 1, 6 |
EV2. Group presentation | 20% | 0 | 0 | 2, 5, 4, 1, 6, 7 |
EV3. Research Design Assignment | 50% | 0 | 0 | 2, 3, 5, 4, 1, 7 |
EV4. Learning module report for the TFM | 20% | 0 | 0 | 4, 1 |