FORE610-12S1 (C)
Semester One 2012
Research Methods
Description
The nature of the scientific method, planning research, defining objectives, writing proposals and workplans, experimental design and analysis, SAS procedures, making inferences from analyses, drawing conclusions, scientific report writing.
This course is designed to assist students in planning research projects and in designing and analyzing appropriate experiments.
Topics covered include the history of the philosophy of science; bibliographic skills; writing skills; presenting papers at conferences; research planning, statistics and experimental design.
The course is offered in both 1st and 2nd Semesters.
Subject to approval of the Head of Department.
Timetable
The course is delivered via a mixture of online material on Learn and additional seminars notified as required. The seminars will cover the Philosophy of Science and Library resource skills modules.
Course Coordinator
Euan Mason
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School of Forestry.
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