Independent research
experience is vastly different from typical in-class lectures or even
laboratory classes. To effectively learn how to do science, one has to do
research, which means working independently
on a project with a coherent set of goals. In
this course, a mentor-apprentice (adviser advisee)
relationship is used to guide each student through the different phases of the
research process. The course will start with lectures on basics of research and the
students will then select a field of interest and choose an adviser who is
knowledgeable in that area. The students, with the help of their advisers, will
then select a topic from a list of possible topics and formulate a problem. The
selection of topic will be done through a title defense oral presentation
with the course instructor. The students will then be guided on how to write
the chapters of a proposal through regular lectures.
Seminars and talks from distinguished researchers which will focus on research
design and analysis will also be given so that the students will learn how to discuss
and analyze their data when they have already started their actual research investigations.
The culmination of this course
will be an oral presentation of the thesis
proposal of each student.
- Teacher: Eulogio Jr Auxtero