Basic literacy on the search and use of analogic and digital information.

Basic knowledge on scientific research, general and specific according to the master course that Lab 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, archival, iconographic, bibliographic and literary sources.

The laboratory, in English and Italian, is open to all masters' 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, regulations, potentials, interaction with the assigned supervisor

- insights on different disciplinary research approaches

(A) P. Feliciati, Research methodologies slides, 2024

(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 to support the Lab activities, not texts to be studied for the final evaluation.

• Students will be called to achieve individual and group hands-on activities, to focus on their master's dissertation topic and starting hypothesis, analyze the potential sources and data and present the results.

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

  Besides the theoretical lectures, thematic workshops will be organized with specialists from various SSH research sectors to carry out in-depth focuses on methods and preferred sources.

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

• The active participation in the lessons and laboratory activities mandatory for 70% of the classes (7 sessions minimum on 10 of 3 hours) will be monitored and evaluated by the instructor.

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

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