PGC 601 Research Methodology and Application of ICT in Research

This is in-depth research work aimed at acquiring full knowledge and presentation in scholarly writing of the concepts, issues, trends in the definition and development of the study of the study area from African and Western perspectives; Major steps in research: Selection of problem, Literature review, Design, Data collection, analysis and interpretation, Conclusions, Study of various research designs, Historical, Case Studies, Surveys, Descriptive, Cross sectional, Experimental, as well as Analysis, surveys and synthesis of conceptual and philosophical foundations of different disciplines. Identification of research problems and development of research questions and or hypotheses are discussed. Detailed treatment of methods of collecting relevant research data and the format for presenting research results (from designing the table of contents to referencing, bibliography and appendix) are also part of this course; Data analysis and result presentation in different disciplines using appropriate analytical tools, Methods of project dissertation writing. This course also considers the Application of appropriate advanced ICT tools relevant in various disciplines for data gathering, analysis and result presentation; Essentials of Spreadsheets, internet technology and internet search engines.