This course aims to provide students with the necessary background and skills: • To identify the major approaches to scientific research and related models for planning, analyzing, implementing and critiquing research. • To understand the essential characteristics of basic research methods including quantitative, qualitative and mixed-methods models and their applications to substantive research questions in IS. • To provide the knowledge and skills necessary to conduct research and to apply these skills in the development of a search proposal that investigates a question of personal interest in the field of IS.