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This course provides hands-on guidance on research projects through practice from project design, research ethics, to data collection, data analysis, to research output and its social impact. Students are expected to work closely with each other as a team in the whole process of research under the guidance of the instructor.

Meeting 1 (Jan 7)      Course Overview, Research Design and Ethics

Meeting 2 (Jan 14)    Finding a Proper Research Topic

Meeting 3 (Jan 21)    Group Presentation 1: Preliminary Research Project Design

Meeting 4 (Feb 4)      Finding a Suitable Research Methodology

Meeting 5 (Feb 11)    Group Presentation 2: Research Project Progress Report

Meeting 6 (Feb 25)    Finding a Data Set

Data Analysis Due by Mar 7

Meeting 7 (Mar 11)   Textual Analysis Workshop

Meeting 8 (Mar 25)   Making an Argument

Meeting 9 (April 15) Group Presentation 3:  Research Project Wrap-Up

Summative Report due by Apr 18

[Participation]                                                             20%

[Group Presentations]                                                 30%

[Data Set and Analysis]                                              20%

[Summative Report]                                                   30%

Attention is drawn to University policy and regulations on honesty in academic work, and to the disciplinary guidelines and procedures applicable to breaches of such policy and regulations. Details may be found at http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/policy/academichonesty/.