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Overview
Topics include research ethics, literature reviews, data interpretation, and academic writing. The Basic Research Skills course empowers participants to apply research as a tool for decision-making in social, educational, and workplace contexts. A quality-assured certificate from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg is awarded on successful completion.
Outcomes
By the end of the course, the student should be able to:
- identify and define a social, educational, organisational, community, or workplace researchable problem.
- explain research as a means of solving problems.
- demonstrate an understanding of different philosophies and approaches to research.
- demonstrate an awareness of ethical practices when doing research.
- gather and process information using a variety of methods such as questionnaires, interviews, discussions, observations.
- use libraries and computers as a means of gathering and processing information
- select appropriate research methods to address an identified problem.
- carry out a structured enquiry.
- reflect on and report the results of the enquiry.
Programme Structure
Topics include:
- What is research
- Identifying a research problem
- Research design and research methods
- Research ethics
- Literature reviews
- Putting the research proposal together
- Reading research
- Data analysis: arranging processing and interpreting data
- Writing skills: writing a research report
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 3 months
Start dates & application deadlines
- Starting
- Apply before
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Language
English
Delivered
On Campus
Campus Location
- Johannesburg, South Africa
Disciplines
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Academic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
Other requirements
General requirements
- Mature age applicants (older than 23 years), without a university exemption, who are applying via the mature age access route
- National Senior Certificate with at least a D symbol in Higher Grade English or English Level 4
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Tuition Fees
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Domestic Applies to you
Applies to youCitizens or residents12480 ZAR / full≈ 12480 ZAR / full
Living costs
Johannesburg
South Africa
8434 - 12036 ZAR / month
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