Instructors: Kim/Muranaka
Course description:
This course provides an overview on how to do social scientific research by using examples of East Asia. The course aims to provide students in East Asian Studies with relevant guidance to design their own research for their advanced BA- and MA-thesis. The course consists of three parts:
1) What is social scientific research;
2) how to design social scientific research (using qualitative methods); and
3) how to conduct social scientific research using China, Japan or South Korea as cases of social scientific research.
Active participation during the course and self-reading of assigned materials per each session are required, and the final assignment is a term paper (6500 words). |