Understanding the methods in the fields of social science, political science, law and public administration.
Understanding basics of public survey and its research design, designing practical survey plan.
About social science : discussing, understanding, expressing on recent public survey of social science. Students will be able to design research plan, make participants to understood the intention and improve the plan considering feedback by participants.
case study, research design
✔ Specialist skills | Intercultural skills | Communication skills | ✔ Critical thinking skills | ✔ Practical and/or problem-solving skills |
students can study about the methodlogy of social science.
Course schedule | Required learning | |
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Class 1 | introduction | none |
Class 2 | epistemology | Understanding textbooks(in Japanese) |
Class 3 | hypothesis, method, theory | Understanding textbooks(in Japanese) |
Class 4 | explanation | Understanding textbooks(in Japanese) |
Class 5 | induction, deduction, abduction | Understanding textbooks(in Japanese) |
Class 6 | process tracing | Understanding textbooks(in Japanese) |
Class 7 | case study 1 | Understanding textbooks(in Japanese) |
Class 8 | case study 2 | Understanding textbooks(in Japanese) |
Class 9 | case study 3 | Understanding textbooks(in Japanese) |
Class 10 | case study 4 | Understanding textbooks(in Japanese) |
Class 11 | case study 5 | Understanding textbooks(in Japanese) |
Class 12 | case study 6 | Understanding textbooks(in Japanese) |
Class 13 | reporting | none |
Class 14 | reporting | none |
Class 15 | reporting | none |
see Japanese
Temporary distributed.
class discussion(60%) and presentation(40%).
It is desirable to have certain knowledge about social science
shinji.kawana[at]ila.titech.ac.jp
Be sure to prepare the textbooks.