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Faculty of Business and Management

INFO Bachelor's Programme Management and Economics according to the Curriculum 2007 (180 ECTS-Credits, 6 semesters)

Elective Modules according to § 5 Para 4 Z. 1 - 35 (30 ECTS-Credits)

Elective Module 34: Social Sciences (7.5 ECTS-AP)

Prerequisites for registration: the registration requirements specified in the respective curriculum must be met

Learning Outcome: Acquisition of an overview knowledge in the field of sociology and/or political science.

Social Sciences Providing the availability of places, courses corresponding to 7.5 ECTS-Credits may be selected from the offer of the Bachelor's Programme Sociology and/or the Bachelor's Programme Political Science.

OLAT ML

408020

VO Introduction to Empirical Social Research (VO / 2h / 5 ECTS-AP)
Bernhard Weicht

INFO Diploma Programme International Economic and Business Studies according to the study programme of 2001 (240 ECTS-Credits, 8 semesters)

First Part of the Diploma Programme according to § 2 Para 2 and § 5 Para 1 (120 ECTS-Credits, 67 h)

Compulsory Module Support Programme 18: Social Sciences (5 ECTS-Credits)

OLAT ML

408020

VO Introduction to Empirical Social Research (VO / 2h / 5 ECTS-AP)
Bernhard Weicht

Faculty of Social and Political Sciences

INFO Bachelor's Programme Political Science according to the curriculum 2007 (180 ECTS-Credits, 6 semesters)

Compulsory Modules (150 ECTS-Credits)

Compulsory Module 2: Applied Methods of Social Science (10 ECTS-Credits, 4 h)

Prerequisites for registration: none

Learning Outcome: Students acquire the ability to deal with current empirical studies and to apply the first steps of a research process (formulation of a research issue, data collection, method reflection) autonomously in terms of quality and/or quantity or method.

OLAT ML

408020

VO Introduction to Empirical Social Research (VO / 2h / 5 ECTS-AP)
Bernhard Weicht

INFO Bachelor's Programme Sociology according to the curriculum 2007 (180 ECTS-Credits, 6 semesters)

Compulsory Modules (150 ECTS-Credits)

Compulsory Module 3: Introduction to Empirical Social Research (10 ECTS-Credits, 4 h)

Prerequisites for registration: none

Learning Outcome: Students acquire the ability to characterise fundamentals of empirical studies. They can assign the most important qualitative and quantitative survey methods to the respective scientific-theoretical and methodological background and decide which research questions require which methods. They are able to critically evaluate existing empirical studies and independently carry out the first phases of a research process (formulation of a research question, data collection, method reflection) qualitatively and/or quantitatively or using method triangulation.

OLAT ML

408020

VO Introduction to Empirical Social Research (VO / 2h / 5 ECTS-AP)
Bernhard Weicht

Faculty of Economics and Statistics

INFO Bachelor's Programme Management and Economics according to the Curriculum 2007 (180 ECTS-Credits, 6 semesters)

Elective Modules according to § 5 Para 4 Z. 1 - 35 (30 ECTS-Credits)

Elective Module 34: Social Sciences (7.5 ECTS-AP)

Prerequisites for registration: The registration requirements specified in the respective curriculum must be met

Learning Outcome: Acquisition of an overview knowledge in the field of sociology and/or political science.

Social Sciences Providing the availability of places, courses corresponding to 7.5 ECTSCredits may be selected from the offer of the Bachelor¿s Programme Sociology and/or the Bachelor¿s Programme Political Science.

OLAT ML

408020

VO Introduction to Empirical Social Research (VO / 2h / 5 ECTS-AP)
Bernhard Weicht

Interdisciplinary and additional courses

Interdisciplinary courses

Interdisciplinary courses for Bachelor's Programmes

OLAT ML

408020

VO Introduction to Empirical Social Research (VO / 2h / 5 ECTS-AP)
Bernhard Weicht

INFO Minors (Complementary Subject Area)

Minors (Complementary Subject Areas) (30 ECTS-Credits)

Minors (Complementary Subject Areas) für Bachelor's Programmes at the University of Innsbruck

Minor: Methods of Empirical Social Research (30 ECTS-Credits)

Prerequisites for registration: The minor Methods of Empirical Research covering 30 ECTS-Credits can be selected by degree students of Bachelor's programmes at the University of Innsbruck, providing the relevant curriculum allows for the option to pass a minor. The minor can be passed, providing the availability of places. Students of the Bachelor's Programme in Political Science and the Bachelor's Programme in Sociology may not pass the minor Methods of Empirical Research.

Learning Outcome: (1) Graduates of the minor Methods in Empirical Social Research know the characteristics of qualitative and quantitative social research, are aware of the special features of data collection and data evaluation and are capable of understanding basic social-scientific methods (such as questionnaires, interviews, analysis of content, discourse, text and network) and statistical procedures (hypothesis tests and regression analyses) and apply them to the solution of pertinent problems from their field of research. (2) The graduates are able - to develop social science research designs and implement them in the context of their own field of study, - to select and apply methods in social science in the context of their own field of study - to collect and evaluate data independently.

Compulsory Modules (20 ECTS-Credits)

The following compulsory modules covering 20 ECTS-Credits must be passed:

Compulsory Module 1: Introduction to Empirical Social Research (10 ECTS-Credits, 4 h)

Prerequisites for registration: none

Learning Outcome: The students can characterise the basics of empirical research. They can assign the most important qualitative and quantitative survey methods to the respective epistemological and methodological background and decide which research questions require which methods. They are able to critically evaluate existing empirical studies and independently carry out the first phases of a research process (formulation of a research question, data collection, method reflection) qualitatively and / or quantitatively or in terms of method triangulation.

OLAT ML

408020

VO Introduction to Empirical Social Research (VO / 2h / 5 ECTS-AP)
Bernhard Weicht

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