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Course Catalog 00/01


Business Adm and Social Science

IES305 Social Sciences - Empirical Application 7.5 ECTS credits

TIMEPERIOD:
IV

LANGUAGE:Swedish

EXAMINER
Olof Stjernström Univ lektor


PREREQUISITES
None

COURSE AIM
- To deepen ones knowledge of methods and technics used in the presentation of scientific papers within the disciplin of social science.
- To give proficiency in the application of analysis methods and their workings.
- To, within the social sciences, independently formulate and test hypothesis and also to give a presentation of conluding results.



CONTENTS
- Basic guidence in how one writes scientific reports.
- To show different phases in the research process from the formulation of scientific problems to the presentation ot concluding results.
- Practice in how to formulate problems, aquire literature, analyze and interprete data.
- Emphasis is put on linquistic presentation of essays and reports.



TEACHING


EXAMINATION
Seminars and essay.
Grading system: Fail, Pass or Honours.

COURSE GRADE SCALE: G, VG

ITEMS/CREDITS

Extended essay 4.50ECTS
Seminars 3.00ECTS

COURSE LITERATURE
Schött, Kristina m.fl.: Studentens Skrivhandbok. Almqvist & Wiksell Förlag AB, 1998.
Svenska Språknämnden: Svenska skrivregler. Almqvist & Wiksell Förlag AB, 1992.
Articles for seminar assignments.
Valid for the academic year 00/01.

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