This course is designed to equip students with the basic skills required by all social and political science students to successfully conduct their studies to a high academic standard. The course will achieve this in the following ways:
- Introduce students to Teaching, Learning and research practices and platforms of the University
- Introduce students to writing social and political science bibliographies
- Instruct students on academic citation and referencing
- Instruct students in critical reading and discussion of academic texts
- Introduce students to the use of social and political science data bases and library resources
- Introduce students to the skills necessary for the interpretation of quantitative data sets and statistical tables