In the Name of God

Methods & Perspectives

25th November 2024– 24th February  2025 (11 sessions)

Mondays: 6pm – 8pm

Fee: £220 (30% discount available for students (with valid ID), senior citizens (60+), and low-income art enthusiasts.

The current module is devised to enable students to achieve a number of objectives. In the first place, it aims to familiarise students with the most important methodological approaches and schools in the field of Cultural Sciences. Secondly, since each competent researcher in Humanities and Social Sciences ought to have a good grasp of a number of ‘methods’ for collecting, analysing and interpreting data and information, critically assessing available evidence, rival views and contesting theories, and providing satisfactory explanations for the phenomena under investigation, a selection of most relevant research methods is also introduced. Last but not least, in view of the fact that successful researchers in the area of humanities and social sciences (which includes Islamic Studies) should be able to present the results of their findings in effective ways, various techniques of writing and presenting a research report/dissertation on themes related to humanities and social sciences (including Islamic Studies) will be introduced. The overall aim of the Module however is to inculcate the ability of critical thinking in the students and to equip them with the required skill and competence for discerning and exploring genuine ‘problems’ in the area related to humanities and social sciences (Islamic Sciences) and developing their intellectual potentials for producing novel solutions for the detected problems.