MAMUS4070 Research Design and Project Description Course description

Emnet omfatter grunnleggende vitenskapsteoretiske aspekter og metoder som benyttes i planlegging, utførelse og formidling av forskningsprosjekter generelt. Det fokuseres dessuten på spesielle problemstillinger knyttet til biomedisinsk forskning, forskningsetikk og aktuell lovgivning.

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The student must have been admitted to the Master’s Programme in Health Sciences.

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 develop a research question for their master’s thesis
• can independently describe relevant academic frame of reference and/or context as a foundation for a project plan for the master’s thesis

Skills

The student

• can plan a research project and write a project description in a precise scientific format and language
• can carry out extensive and systematic literature searches relating to their own project description, summarise and discuss the findings of others, and cite sources correctly
• can reflect upon ethical issues related to the project

General competence

The student

• can analyse and deal critically with various sources of data and use them in scholarly arguments
• can critically assess relevant ethical norms and values related to the chosen method in the project plan
• can assess whether a research project requires various forms of registration or approval in accordance with the applicable legislation

The course will use varied, student-active work methods. The teaching will be given digital and physical, in addition to blended learning with seminars on campus during the course. Work and teaching methods include digital and physical lectures, individual literature studies and written work, oral presentations, group discussions and supervision. Up to two hours of guidance is given on the project description.

Arbeids- og undervisningsformene omfatter forelesninger, seminarer med studentaktive diskusjoner, praktisk statistikkurs, gruppearbeid og selvstudier.

Følgende arbeidskrav må være godkjent for å fremstille seg til eksamen:

• holde innlegg og delta i diskusjon på seminar i vitenskapsteori

Eksamensinnhold: Læringsutbyttene

Eksamensform: Individuell skriftlig eksamen, 4 timer

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Gradert skala A-F

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