6 ECTS credits
180 h study time
Offer 1 with catalog number 1021584BNR for all students in the 1st semester
at
a (B) Bachelor - advanced level.
- Semester
- 1st semester
- Enrollment based on exam contract
- Impossible
- Grading method
- Grading (scale from 0 to 20)
- Can retake in second session
- Yes
- Enrollment Requirements
- Students who want to enroll for this course, must have passed for ‘Statistics for Business and Economics I', 'Introduction to Microeconomics' and must have obtained at least 30 ECTS-credits on bachelor level.
- Taught in
- English
- Faculty
- Faculty of Social Sciences & SolvayBusinessSchool
- Department
- ES Academische eenheid
- Educational team
- Ilse Scheerlinck
(course titular)
Leo Van Hove
Filip Van Droogenbroeck
Michaël Pascal D Distelmans
Imke Dirkx
- Activities and contact hours
-
32 contact hours Lecture
18 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
130 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study
- Course Content
The course Research Methods for Business and Economics consists of:
- a series of lectures on quantitative and qualitative research methods, delivered by course holders. Additional guest lectures may be scheduled,
- written work. With reference to a specific topic, students will be required to produce summaries of scholarly papers and an annotated bibliography, following the guidelines for academic writing and compliant with the APA-referencing style.
Once a student has passed the course, s/he will have developed the skills that are required for writing a Bachelor’s paper, as well as any other written work at the more advanced level. Ultimately, the course should prepare the student to embark on writing a Master’s thesis.
- Course material
- Digital course material (Required) : Syllabus and slides, Canvas
Handbook (Required) : Researching and writing a dissertation, An essential guide for business students, Fisher, C., 3rd, Harlow: Financial Times Prentice Hall, 9780273723431, 2010
- Additional info
Not applicable.
- Learning Outcomes
-
General Competences
After successfully completing the course, students
- should be able to identify a research problem in economics or management and formulate a relevant and adequately underpinned research question;
- should be able to find the related existing research results in the academic literature and report these results in a scientific and critical manner, with (correct) references and a bibliography;
- should be able to paraphrase and synthesize the main ideas of scholarly articles;
- should know the most important research methods in economics and management and have acquired insight into the applicability and pros and cons of these methods in a given context.
- Grading
-
The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Written Exam determines 100% of the final mark.
Within the Written Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
- Written Exam
with a relative weight of 50
which comprises 50% of the final mark.
- Assignments
with a relative weight of 50
which comprises 50% of the final mark.
- Additional info regarding evaluation
The final grade (100%) on the course will be weighted as follows:
- Part 1. Written exam in January (50%)
- Part 2. Written work, consisting of various assignments, individually or in group (50%)
Note: The written work may be supplemented with one or more in-class presentations. Should this be the case, then this grade will count towards Part 2 of the final grade.
Important:
Students must participate in all parts (i.e., written exam and all components of written work) to obtain a final grade on the course.
In order to obtain an end score on the course that includes the grades on written work, the student should obtain at least 35% (or 7/20) on the written exam. If the grade is less than 35% or 7/20, then this grade will count towards the overall grade of the course.
In the second session, the grade on group work will be maintained, while the individual work and written exam will have to be retaken.
Outgoing Erasmus students who follow the course need to contact the course holder at the beginning of the academic year in order to agree upon an arrangement.
- Allowed unsatisfactory mark
- The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.
Academic context
This offer is part of the following study plans:
Bachelor of Business Economics: Startplan Business Economics
Bachelor of Business Economics: Business and Technology
Bachelor of Business Economics: International Business