Basic literacy on the use of analogic and digital resources.

Basic knowledge on scientific research, general and specific according to the master course participants are following.

The laboratory intends to provide participants with an introduction on the historical and current methodologies and techniques of scientific research in the human and social sciences: digital data, quantitative, qualitative, research on archival, iconographic, bibliographic and literary sources.

The laboratory, in Italian and English, is open to all master's students.

Skills: developing a research project, selecting, evaluating, processing and transmitting - individually and in groups - data and information in the context of SSH disciplines.

- scientific research from its origins to the 21st century, between individuality and community: ethics, contexts, issues

- research methodologies, from hypothesis to thesis

- The communication of scientific research: formats, author's rights, references, indexing and writing

- the master's degree dissertation: conception, structure, rules, potentials, interaction with supervisors

- thematic insights on different disciplinary approaches

(A) P. Feliciati, Research methodologies slides, 2023

(C) U. Eco, How to Write a Thesis, The MIT Press Paperback, 2015

(C) P. McNeill - S. Chapman, Research Methods, Routledge 2005

The bibliographic materials distributed and suggested are intended as a support of the Lab activities, not texts to be studied for the final evaluation.

• Besides some general theoretical lectures, thematic workshops will be organized with specialists from various SSH research sectors to carry out in-depth focuses.

  Reference sources will be provided tome to time, differentiated according to the educational steps and the field of study of individual participants.

  Students will be called to individual and group practical activities, to focus on their master's dissertation hypotheses, analyze the potential sources and texts and present the results.

  At the end, every student will be asked to fill in a simple project of a master's thesis, with title, abstract, contect structure and starting bibliography.

• Active participation in the lessons and laboratory activities - mandatory for 70% of the classes - will be monitored and evaluated by the instructor.

  During the Lab, individual and group activities (50% for evaluation) will be proposed in preparation to the final project, whose consistency and appropriateness (50% for evaluation) will form material for the final evaluation, expressed in /30.

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