Dear Student
Welcome to the module ASGY 342: RESEARCH METHODS 4. A student is doing this exit module because they have successfully undergone the prerequisites of this module; firstly ASGY 241: RESEARCH METHODS 1, which introduced students in Sociology to social scientific research. Further to that, you are also doing this module because you did ASGY 242: RESEARCH METHODS 2, which introduced students to methodologies of social scientific research. And you qualify for this module because you have undergone the introduction to practical research on ASGY341: RESEARCH METHODS 3, where you were taken to the process of doing the research proposal under your chosen topic. Therefore, this module, ASGY342: RESEARCH METHODS 4, is the last course of your Sociology/ Industrial Sociology BA Degree research sequence. This final module in research sequence in Sociology degree, further develop students with practical research as a student is expected to do a research report. Therefore, in this module a student is given an opportunity to do a research report from start to finish, under the supervision of the assigned lecturer. This module equip students in their B. A. Degree in Sociology and Industrial Sociology with exposure to practical research and be able to do research project(s) independently. Therefore students are equipped with scientific ways of dealing with modern social problems in a scholarly manner.