Methodologies of Investigation in a Doctoral Project 博士研究專案調研方法

持續進修課程

(課程資料目前僅提供英文版本)

課程簡介：

This course proposes an overview of the foundations of the scientific method and some of the central philosophical trends that have shaped today’s scientific thinking. Aspects of modern science, such as publications fora, indexing and ranking, scientific communities or fake science, are approached and analysed. This is followed by a review of the scientific production’s different types, characteristics and content nature as publications with particular emphasis on the doctoral thesis, research papers and scientific posters. Students will receive an overview of fundamental techniques for academic writing and oral presentations, along with hands-on exercises to apply and consolidate the theoretical concepts. The course will be entirely delivered online with eight synchronous sessions, online learning materials, and asynchronous discussion and assignment delivery.

學習目標：

Identify the major philosophical currents that shaped modern scientific thinking and distinguish the characteristics and nature of scientific knowledge and method.
Discriminate the fundamental principles of scientific writing.
Differentiate the several types, characteristics and nature of scientific publications with special emphasis on a doctoral thesis, research papers and posters.
Describe a doctoral research plan’s key elements, purpose, specific characteristics, and nature.
Apply relevant concepts/knowledge to write scientific texts in a summarising essay, a poster and a provisional state-of-the-art study or literature review.

教學計劃

Session	Topics
I	Introduction to the course: characterising the scientific revolution. Main theories of knowledge and philosophical world views. Research methods.
II	Action Research as a research design for solving problems.
III	Presentation of research papers. The structure and content of a doctoral thesis.
IV	Presentation of research papers. The fundamental key elements of the doctoral research plan.
V	Visual communication in science and visual research approaches. Research questions, objectives and hypothesis.
VI	State-of-the-art study/literature review. Systematic review principles and practices.
VII	Presentation of the Poster. Research in an inter-, multi- and transdisciplinary area: digital media arts in a postdigital era and the charter of transdisciplinarity
VIII	Presentation of the Poster. Publishing in the early stages of doctoral research.

考核要求

Quality and level of Participation in the online discussions (10%).
Quality of the Assignments (essay summarising a research article and its presentation; provisional state-of-the-art study/ literature review; scientific poster and its presentation) (90%).

課程詳情：

導師：	Adérito Fernandes-Marcos （博士學院院長）及 António Maneira （博士學院助理教授）
日期：	2025年05月07日至06月25日
時間：	週三 19:00 – 20:30
時長：	12小時（8節線上課堂）及 18小時（線下個人作業）
學分：	2學分
語言：	英語授課
模式：	線上授課（8節線上課堂; 其中使用USJ Moodle平台進行課間討論及課堂作業）
學費：	澳門幣2,000
對象：	博士學生、碩士學生或持有碩士學位之人士
相關要求:	修習是次課程之學員，出席率達70%或以上且通過指定考核要求，將獲發課程結業證書及取得2學分。成功報讀聖若瑟大學的學位課程之學員，可向大學提出豁免申請修讀相關學位課程的對應學科學分。本校將根據具體情況及個別申請，授予學分豁免和學分等值安排，並保留所有最終豁免決定權。