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Objectives: to help graduate students develop the
ability to plan and implement a research project, more
specifically:
a) to ask the right kind of research
questions,
b) develop an appropriate and feasible
research design, and
c) actually carry it
out
Requirements:
a) write and rewrite research a
proposal about the selected topics
b) contribute to
classroom discussion
(active participation is always encouraged and highly evaluated)
Time: Friday 4:30 p.m. -
7:30 p.m.
Room: Reference Room
(in the English Department Library, Humanities and Social Building, 3rd
FL.)
NB: This seminar will be conducted all in Japanese. Foreign students are
required to have highly advanced proficiency of Japanese.
Time
Schedule
April
15 Course Orientation
22 Warm up Activity
May
6 Writing Research Design 1: Topic 1
13 Reading a Paper on Topic 1
20 Rewriting Research Design 2: Topic 1
27 Writing Research Design 1: Topic 2
June
3 Reading a Peper on Topic 2
10 Rewriting Research Design 2: Topic 2
17 Writing Research Design 1: Topic 3
24 Reading a Paper on Topic 3
July
1 Rewriting Research Design 2: Topic 3
8 Writing Research Design 1: Topic 4
15 Reading a Paper on Topic 4
22 Rewriting Research Design 2: Topic 4
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