First-Year Research Experience I

Catalog description

This course will introduce students to the research enterprise in general, and research activities and resources at Miami, in particular. Furthermore, it allows students to discover the research process within a particular content area by participating in a hands-on research experience. The course serves a number of purposes, such as: providing orientation and overview of relevant university resources, exposing students to examples of ongoing research at the university, covering content material on how to design and conduct research, locating and retrieving source material for research projects, designing an appropriate study to address a research question, and socializing students within a community of scholars. It is expected that students will complete UNV 172 in the subsequent semester, after which they will be adequately trained to partake in supervised yet independent research or creative activity with a faculty mentor, or other similar endeavors of their choosing.