Study of research methods, systems, and models, research tools, assessment procedures, research sources, research steps; starting from the stage of choosing the subject, identifying the problem, developing the hypotheses and displaying and documenting the results, students’ training on how to assess and defend their ideas and theses, examination and analysis of scientific publications, principles of scientific integrity and ethics of scientific research. The course concludes with the student writing a paper on a chosen topic, that includes a review of a sufficient number of the literature, and discussing the paper in the class and re-drafting it based on the discussions and comments.
