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About Study Course

Credit points / ECTS:2 / 3
Course supervisor:Inese Jokste
Study type:Part time, Full time
Course level:Bachelor
Target audience:Psychology; Sociology
Language:Latvian
Branch of science:Psychology

Objective

To promote students' understanding of research development process and academic integrity, to develop students' skills in searching, selecting and analysing scientific literature sources, to prepare research question(-s) and/or hypothesis(-es), to improve students' understanding of textual writing.

Prerequisites

General psychology, Research in psychology.

Learning outcomes

Knowledge

Understands, compares and critically evaluates different theoretical approaches and research results on the research topic; demonstrates writing abilities and observes research ethics, understands requirements and assessment criteria for the semester paper.

Skills

Formulates research questions, selects, critically evaluates and analyses information sources in order to define the research problem and substantiate topicality; formulates the aim and research question(s) of the study; writes a literature review following the basic principles of academic writing, grammar and research ethics, draws conclusions; formulates, presents and defends the research.

Competence

Independently plans and conducts a literature review in accordance with basic principles of research and ethics and presents its results.

Study course planning

Planning period:Year 2025, Spring semester
Study programmeStudy semesterProgram levelStudy course categoryLecturersSchedule
Psychology, PSbN4Bachelor’sRequiredInese Jokste
Psychology, PSb4Bachelor’sRequiredSandra Mihailova, Inese Jokste