PSYC 733: Research Design

Class Program
Credits 3
Designing research and conducting extensive reviews of the literature are essential to providing best practices in counseling psychology and primary care. This course fosters the development of an individualized literature review and is tailored to doctoral students in counseling psychology-primary care. Skills taught include qualitative and quantitative literature reviews in academic research, advanced on and offline search skills, plagiarism, using evidence matrices, synthesizing data and mastering the authorial tone. This course is structured to guide students throughout the research process: identifying and developing individual research interests, searching for relevant information resources, refining research questions, and concluding with the writing of a research proposal or literature review.