Congratulations on starting your postgraduate studies!
This course has considerable implications on the quality of work you produce for your dissertations because it aims to develop your scholarly research orientation and to acquaint you with
fundamentals of research methods. You are introduced to research terminology;
made aware of the ethical principles of research, as well as capable of
conducting a literature review and critiquing published research. The course
covers quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods approaches to research.