The course is designed to provide the student with broad fundamentals of research methods. To this end, students will be introduced to quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods approaches for conducting research. Students will be guided through the various stages of conducting research; i.e. writing research proposals, where they will identify problems to study; collecting information by conducting appropriate literature review; collecting appropriate primary and/or secondary data; analyzing data; writing mini reports; and critiquing published articles. Class time will be devoted to lectures, data analysis and in-class assignments. The course is hands-on, using R as the main software.