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- This course is tailored for HSS doctoral students who need exposure to the diverse research methods in various fields in the humanities and social sciences. The primary goal of this course is to teach focused topics through pre-assigned readings that will span methodological, empirical and theoretical types, of which a balance will be sought during the course. The targeted readings will be coupled with intensive critical discussions with the relevant faculty, oral presentations (including intellectual debates), writing exercises, watching documentaries, task-based laboratory exercises and/or local field assignments (including collection of empirical and/or archival data. This course familiarizes the students with research approaches and skills. It aims to impart lectures on the following: formulating research arguments, documenting various sources, expressing the thoughts in language, writing research papers, to name a few. This course also sensitizes the researchers to the pitfalls in research, in particular, intentional and unintentional plagiarism. In addition, the researchers will also be exposed to the techniques of reading and making sense of journal articles from their respective fields. At the end of the course, the student should present an informed and critical synthesis from all the readings done; this will further help refine their general topical interest into a suitable doctoral research topic. To obtain more general knowledge of the methods required for independent doctoral research, the student(s) may also interact with relevant experts in the field of their interest, in addition to the instructor(s).
- D. Nolan, Method in Analytic Metaphysics, in The Oxford Handbook of Philosophical Methodology, (Eds. H. Cappelen, T. S. Gendler and J. Hawthorne), Oxford Handbooks Online (2016).
- H. White, The Fiction of Narrative: Essays on History, Literature, and Theory, 1957–2007, John Hopkins University Press (2010).
- J. Gibaldi, Introduction to Scholarship in Modern Languages and Literatures, The Modern Language Association of America, 2nd Edition (1992).
- MLA Handbook, The Modern Language Association of America, 8th Edition (2016).
- M. McHugh, Feminist Qualitative Research: Toward Transformation of Science and Society, in The Oxford Handbook of Qualitative Research (Ed., Patricia Leavy), Oxford Handbooks Online (2014).
- Select chapters from authored/edited books and articles from relevant journals (e.g. Current Anthropology, American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, Ethnography; J. of Archaeological Science, J. of Human Evolution, J. of Archaeological Method and Theory, J. of World Prehistory, Antiquity, History and Theory, Past & Present, Modern Asian Studies; Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Philosophical Studies, Indian Journal of Philosophy, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, Osiris, ISIS; Critical Inquiry, Modern Fiction Studies, American Literature, The Explicator, Journal of Modern Literature, SubStance, Diacritics).
