This course provides an overview of the concepts, methods, and tools by which communication research is designed, conducted, interpreted, and critically evaluated, to help you become a knowledgeable consumer and a limited producer of communication research as you develop skills in gathering, organizing, interpreting and presenting research information using competent and ethically defensible methods.
Intended Learning Outcomes:
By the end of this course students should be able to:
1-1 Define research terms.
1-2 Understand how to use the scientific and methodological tools.
1-3 Identify research methodologies used in the field of mass communication.
1-4 Describe the research process.
1-5 recognize the basics of interview as a research tool
1-6 Recognize the different forms of research questions.
1-7 identify the basics of conducting discourse analysis
1-8 Comprehend the rules of surveys and how to conduct them in communication researches
1-9 Describe the experiment process in media researches.
1-10 Understand the roles of variables in quantitative and qualitative research
1-11 recognize the main ethics of researches in communication .
1-12 identify the fundamentals of research reports