This course will give students the opportunity to design and plan the data collection stages of their research process. After attending this course, students will be equipped with comprehensive skills necessary to undertake their field research work in the context of Myanmar and of the challenges created by the global and local social and political crisis. By the end of the term, each student will have developed its research proposal with project’s introduction and literature review section (including the research question), sample and sampling methods, data collection tools, data collection plan, and ethics and security plan.
This course will introduce students to skills needed for academic reading and writing at the intermediate to upper-intermediate level. By engaging in intensive and extensive thematic reading, students will improve their vocabulary, grammar, and reading strategies. Students will also practice a range of academic writing skills, including paraphrasing, summarising, argumentative writing and reflective writing. The skills practiced in this course will serve as the foundation for research report writing. By the end of the course, students will be more comfortable reading and analysing academic texts.
