6 ECTS credits
180 u studietijd

Aanbieding 1 met studiegidsnummer 1021584BNR voor alle studenten in het 1e semester met een verdiepend bachelor niveau.

Semester
1e semester
Inschrijving onder examencontract
Niet mogelijk
Beoordelingsvoet
Beoordeling (0 tot 20)
2e zittijd mogelijk
Ja
Inschrijvingsvereisten
Students must have taken ‘Statistics for BE I’ and 'Introduction to Microeconomics, before they can enroll in this course.
Onderwijstaal
Engels
Faculteit
Faculteit Sociale Wetensch & SolvayBusinessSchool
Verantwoordelijke vakgroep
ES Academische eenheid
Onderwijsteam
Ilse Scheerlinck (titularis)
Leo Van Hove
Filip Van Droogenbroeck
Michaël Pascal D Distelmans
Imke Dirkx
Onderdelen en contacturen
32 contacturen Hoorcollege
18 contacturen Werkcolleges, practica en oefeningen
130 contacturen Zelfstudie en externe werkvormen
Inhoud

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 a search strategy and write 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 or any other written work at a more advanced level. Ultimately, the course should prepare the student to embark on writing a Master’s thesis.

Studiemateriaal
Digitaal cursusmateriaal (Vereist) : Syllabus and slides, Canvas
Handboek (Aanbevolen) : Research Methods for Business, Sekaran & Bougie, Wiley, 9781119165552
Bijkomende info

Not applicable.

Leerresultaten

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.

Beoordelingsinformatie

De beoordeling bestaat uit volgende opdrachtcategorieën:
Examen Schriftelijk bepaalt 100% van het eindcijfer

Binnen de categorie Examen Schriftelijk dient men volgende opdrachten af te werken:

  • Written Exam met een wegingsfactor 60 en aldus 60% van het totale eindcijfer.
  • Assignments met een wegingsfactor 40 en aldus 40% van het totale eindcijfer.

Aanvullende info mbt evaluatie

The final grade (100%) on the course will be weighted as follows:

  • Part 1. Written exam in January (60%): closed-book, incl. open-ended questions and true-false statements (with correction for guessing)
  • Part 2. Written work, consisting of various assignments, individually or in group (40%)

Note: If in-class presentations are organized, 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 50% (or 10/20) on the written exam. If the grade is less than 50% or 10/20, 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.

Toegestane onvoldoende
Kijk in het aanvullend OER van je faculteit na of een toegestane onvoldoende mogelijk is voor dit opleidingsonderdeel.

Academische context

Deze aanbieding maakt deel uit van de volgende studieplannen:
Bachelor of Business Economics: Startplan Business Economics (enkel aangeboden in het Engels)
Bachelor of Business Economics: Business and Technology (enkel aangeboden in het Engels)
Bachelor of Business Economics: International Business (enkel aangeboden in het Engels)