• This course will acquaint you with the basis of scientific research; developing a research design, types of research design, clarifying the area of research, problem analysis, sampling design, developing research questions, formulating objectives, preparing a literature review, approaches to data collection, qualitative and quantitative research; method of data collection: questionnaires, and interview schedules, case studies, observation techniques, group techniques, etc; data organization and analysis, qualitative research methods, grounded theory, writing research report.