LWP 6500 — Doctoral Research Design 1: Designing a Research Proposal
4 semester hoursGraduateLecture
Offers students an opportunity to further develop their knowledge and skills in research methodology and design. Students refine and add to the literature review, law and policy review, and methods chapters. Expects students to utilize their updated literature review to refine their design for their thesis research project and to develop and refine the research methodology. Explores relationships with data in-depth: collection, management, analysis, and handling of ethical concerns and standards of rigor. Requires, by the end of the course, preparation of a doctoral thesis project proposal, defense of the proposal, and submission of the student's Institutional Review Board application for review in alignment with university requirements. The IRB application will then be completed and submitted to the Northeastern University IRB.