220057 SE SE Research Project A (2019S)

This seminar has two main objectives: learning how to do an empirical research and preparing yourself for an academic career. You will work on your own research projects. At the beginning of the class, the students will look for a research gap and think about possible individual projects. Later, the students will work on defining constructs and developing items for these. Secondly, they will have to search for theories important for their topics. The students will also have to work in a statistical package in order to calculate the assigned values. Eventually, the students might split into groups in order to test their initial ideas. In groups, they will develop research questions and hypotheses, in order to start doing more serious statistical analyses. Final report has to be handed in on the last day of the class.

Note: the syllabus is still in development. There might be changes to the final course outline.

In this year-long seminar, students will develop and conduct an empirical study in the area of Journalism Studies. During Semester 1 (spring/summer term), students will work on developing the conceptual background, theory and literature review, research questions, and methodology.
During Semester 2 (fall/winter term) students will conduct fieldwork for the studies developed during Semester 1, analysis of results and writing-up process.