- Course type: PhD training component.
- Year of study: First year of study.
- Final assessment: Essay, Internal or external examiner.
- Prerequisites: Admission to the PhD programme.
- Language of instruction: Scandinavian languages and English.
Course description
The course consists of methodological topics that are relevant to music research.
Learning objectives
Upon completion of the course, the candidate is expected to
- document insight into, and be able to analyse and discuss key research methodological traditions, positions, concepts, ways of thinking and issues related to music research.
- be able to reflect critically on research methodological and ethical issues
- be able to contribute to methodological development within their own research area
- be able to assess and critically analyse research methods and research results within their own research area
- be able to assess and describe the ethical consequences of methodological approaches in the dissertation
Content
The course provides an introduction to qualitative research methods, quantitative research methods, mixed research methods and research ethics.
The course content is divided into two parts: One common part with a stated syllabus equivalent to 5 credits (5-600 pages), and an individual, self-selected part equivalent to 2.5 credits (250-300 pages).
The common part of the course provides an introduction to qualitative research methods, quantitative research methods and mixed research methods.
Research ethics provides an introduction to fundamental ethical thinking, frameworks and resources in research ethics, in addition to working with research ethics issues in the candidate's PhD project.
In the individual part, the candidate prepares a self-selected syllabus that is particularly relevant to their own research work. The syllabus can include both research methods and ethics.
Structure
The teaching comprises lectures, presentations, discussions, assignments and independent literature studies.
The tuition takes place in the first year of the programme.
The candidate is automatically registered for teaching/supervision and assessment in the course in accordance with the progression set out in the curriculum.
Course requirements
The research fellow must submit a bibliography for the self-selected part by a deadline set by the course coordinator. The bibliography must be approved by the PhD leader or the person authorised by the PhD leader (course coordinator).
It is compulsory to participate in the teaching of ethics and in the co-researchers' presentations related to the self-selected part.
Deadlines for submitting individual bibliographies and essays can be found in separate guidelines on the PhD programme's internal website (ansatt.nmh.no).
Final assessment
The course is documented with an essay of 5-6000 (excluding references and appendices) words related to the common part of the course and a presentation related to the self-selected part of the course.
The literature for the essay can be from both the common syllabus and the self-selected part of the course.
The candidate is assessed in relation to the course's learning objectives. The final assessment is expressed as a pass/fail grade and is determined by an external or internal examiner.
See separate guidelines for the essay on the programme's internal website (ansatt.nmh.no).
Reassessment
The same rules apply to reassessment as to ordinary assessment.