General information

Course type LAS
Module title Research Design Across Disciplines
Language English
Module lecturer Rafał Dymczyk
Lecturer's email dymczyk@amu.edu.pl
Lecturer position prof. UAM dr hab.
Faculty Faculty of History
Semester 2025/2026 (summer)
Duration 30
ECTS 2
USOS code 18-S1LAA02-P02958

Timetable

Module aim (aims)

1 learning to use basic information and skills in the field of knowledge acquisition,information management skills (acquisition and interpretation of data from varioussources)
2 preparing students for group work
3 learning the application of practical knowledge, ability to adapt to new conditions
4 understanding other cultures and customs, creating own projects
5 ability to appreciate cultural and multicultural diversity in their research

Pre-requisites in terms of knowledge, skills and social competences (where relevant)

Syllabus

1. Contemporary research methodologies.
2. Relations between science and culture.
3. Practical aspect of conducting scientific research.
4. Cultural differences and scientific research.

Reading list

Obligatory

  1. Pieter J., Ogólna metodologia pracy naukowej, Ossolineum, Wrocław 1967.
  2. Metodologia nauk. Cz. 1, Czym jest nauka?, red. S. Janeczek, M. Walczak, A. Starościc, Wydawnictwo KUL, Lublin 2019.
  3. Metodologia nauk. Cz. 2, Typy nauk, red. S. Janeczek, M. Walczak, A. Starościc, Wydawnictwo KUL, Lublin 2019.

Optional

  1. Ioannidis J.P., Why most published research findings are false, “PLoS Medicine”. 2(8) (2005), s. 124.
  2. Grobler A., Metodologia nauk, Znak, Kraków 2008.