RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

Catalog description

This course is designed to provide the student with methodological knowledge regarding the process to follow when conducting environmental scientific research as well as the federal and Ana G. Méndez University System laws which regulates this process. The course covers the quantitative and qualitative research methods, their advantages and disadvantages, their differences as well as their limits. Nevertheless, since this course is directed to scientific investigations, the primary focus of the course is the quantitative approach. The course also provides space so each student could discuss and identify a research problem and write a research prospectus which also includes the hypothesis or research questions, objectives, research design as well as the appropriate measurement methods that apply.