Research Topics and Methods

This subject is not offered in 2008.

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The subject will be taught in modules, each the responsibility of a particular lecturer. The team will be drawn from across the French, Italian and Spanish programs. Staff will give an introduction to their own current research projects, will explain to students how the topic is formulated, how it emerges from its field, its relation with previous research in the field, and the objectives of the research. The subject will thus give students an idea of the range of research undertaken in the School, and will give them preliminary training in the devising of an independent project.

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

• On completion of this subject students should: learn to analyse material for unsolved problems or for issues requiring investigation;

• learn how to question previously obtained results productively and what kinds of methods of investigation suit what kinds of problems.