MAEN5300 Research Methods and Ethics Course description

This course will provide an opportunity for students to establish their understanding of research through critical exploration of research language, ethics, and approaches. Particular emphasis is placed on elucidating research methods and research ethical issues that are relevant to engineering students.

No formal requirements over and above the admission requirements for the programme.

After completing the course, the student is expected to have achieved the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and general competence:

Knowledge

The student has:

• knowledge of induction, deduction and abduction as scientific approaches
• knowledge of the structure and content of scientific articles and dissertations
• knowledge for assessing research ethical issues related to one’s own project
• knowledge of the characteristics of situations that can be considered plagiarism and corruption

Skills

The student is capable of:

• applying relevant methods for research or development work in one’s own work
• using online search technology to find relevant information
• applying relevant resources for clarifying and finding solutions to ethical issues
• using relevant technological knowledge and scientific methods and principles when planning and conducting the research

General competance

The student is capable of:

• conducting an independent, limited research or development project under supervision and in line with current research ethics norms
• evaluating research ethical issues in connection with the planning and implementation of a master's thesis

The teaching will consist of participation in lectures and project work.

The following work requirements must be approved in order to be qualified for the exam:

Individual written submission, scope, 500 words +/- 10%

Participating in 80 percent of the lectures. 

Language of instruction: Norwegian

This course aims to enable the students to acquire specialised practical competence in the field of psychomotor physiotherapy. The trends in society are characterised by increasing ethnic, cultural and linguistic diversity, and an increase in illness and physical complaints among adolescents. This course therefore has a focus on topics such as identity, language and culture and relates these to the body and various physical complaints. Practical training period 2 is completed during this course.

All aids allowed.

The student must have been admitted to the Master’s Programme in Health Sciences - Specialisation in Psychomotor Physiotherapy and hold Norwegian authorisation as a physiotherapist.The student must have passed the courses MAPFY4100 and MAPFY4200.

It is assumed that the student has access to a practical training establishment/own place of work where psychomotor physiotherapy treatments are performed on patients.

After completing the course, the student should have the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and general competence: 

Knowledge 

The student

• can interpret physical reactions to major life events   
• can analyse clinical problems from a cultural perspective
• can discuss the relationship between identity, culture and health  
• can discuss the relationship between adolescents, identity, the body and health

Skills 

The student

• can assess and adapt psychomotor physiotherapy to patients of different ages and from different cultural backgrounds
• can apply psychomotor physiotherapy to patients going through major life events
• can communicate independent assessments as part of interdisciplinary cooperation on treatment and assessments relating to social security/national insurance schemes 

General competence   

The student  

• can contribute to improving the quality of today’s health services
• can contribute in interprofessional cooperation concerning patients from different cultural backgrounds
• can analytically reflect on the patient’s participation in interprofessional cooperation
• can analyse and assess professional and ethical aspects of their own professional practice

Work and teaching methods vary between lectures, digital teaching sessions in the form of flipped classroom, supervised skills training and student-active learning methods in the form of group work, seminars and presentations. The course is session-based.

The students will perform psychomotor physiotherapy on patients at their own place of work/practical training establishment.

The last part of practical training period 2 is taken and concluded in this course.