Empirical Social Sciences: Asking and answering questions with data
Graduate course, University of Bremen, 2023
The course aims to prepare students for writing their bachelor’s thesis. Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to select and narrow a research topic, to formulate a research question, to do a literature review, to locate descriptive data appropriate to their research question as well as they will learn how to visualize this data using R software. Students will be prepared to design and independently carry out their own research project. The focus is on teaching the ability to independently use data from various sources as a basis for argumentation to answer social science questions. This will prepare students for writing their thesis, as well as for a future career in which data analysis plays an increasingly important role. At the end of the course, students will design their own research project, and present it to their peers.