| Academic Unit: |
School of Graduate Studies |
| Mode of Delivery: |
Face to face |
| Prerequisites: |
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| Language of Instruction: |
English |
| Level of Course Unit: |
Doctorate |
| Course Coordinator: |
Hasan DAĞ & Timur Aydemir |
| Course Lecturer(s): |
Timur Aydemir, Hasan DAĞ |
| Course Objectives: |
To gain the basic skills necessary for academic life including research proposal development for graduate students. |
| Course Contents: |
Introduction. How to pose research problems. How to define objectives, targets and project outcomes. Research Proposal Development Phases: Development and writing the originality part of the proposal. Describing the methodology. Building the work plan and describing the work packages, deliverables, risks and alternative plans. Describing the impact of the project. Combining the components and presenting as a research proposal. Evaluation and refinement of a research proposal. Budgeting and the other related issues in submitting a research proposal to a funding agency. How to evaluate and criticize a research proposal. |
| Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit (LO): |
- 1- Ability to describe the concepts related to research proposals such as originality, objective, literature based need analysis, target, impact, and outcome.
- 2- Ability to write a research proposal.
- 3- Ability to present a research proposal.
- 4- Ability to evaluate and criticize a research proposal.
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| Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods: |
In class teaching, discussions, writings and presentations. |
| Week | Subjects | Related Preperation |
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Components of a research proposal. |
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| 2 |
Originality of an idea. Preparation of a literature survey. Good and bad examples of originality statements. |
Reading sample reports and watching training videos |
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Writing the method of the proposal. Good and bad examples. |
Reading sample reports and watching training videos |
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Writing the project plan of the proposal. Defining the success criteria, deliverables, risks and alternative plans. Good and bad examples. |
Reading sample reports and watching training videos |
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Defining the impact of the proposal. Good and bad examples. |
Reading sample reports and watching training videos |
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Combining all the components and writing the summary. Good and bad examples. |
Reading sample reports and watching training videos |
| 7 |
Preparing a research proposal. |
Reading sample reports and watching training videos |
| 8 |
Preparing a research proposal. |
Reading sample reports and watching training videos |
| 9 |
Criticizing and evaluating research proposals. |
Reading sample reports and watching training videos |
| 10 |
Presentation of research proposals. |
Reading sample reports and watching training videos |
| 11 |
Presentation of research proposals. |
Reading sample reports and watching training videos |
| 12 |
Presentation of research proposals. |
Reading sample reports and watching training videos |
| 13 |
Presentation of research proposals. |
Reading sample reports and watching training videos |
| 14 |
Presentation of research proposals. |
Reading sample reports and watching training videos |
At Kadir Has University, a Semester is 14 weeks; The weeks 15 and 16 are reserved for final exams.
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (LO) AND PROGRAM QUALIFICATIONS (PQ)
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Contribution: 1 Low, 2 Average, 3 High
