Cursos / 1º Ciclo / Faculty of Law :: International Relations

METODOLOGIA DE INVESTIGAÇÃO E TECNOLOGIAS DA INFORMAÇÃO - 2013/2014

1º curricular year
Semestralidade: 1st semester
ECTS: 3

Teachers

Leading Teacher: Prof. Doutor Rui Marrana
Assistant Professor: Prof. Doutor Rui Marrana

Class type and School hours

Teórico-prática : 2 Horas

Teaching Language

Portuguese

Main Aims/Objectives

Develop capacity for understanding complex theoretical phenomena.

Specific Aims/Objectives

Deliver the methodologychal tools to theoretical resaerch

Skills to be acquired

Ability to formulate hypotheses for research and development of their proposed methodological and epistemological reasoned and presented

Teaching Procedures

Weekly coursework

Programme

1. Technology Resources
1.1 Information Technology
1.2 and-Lusíada
1.3 Databases Online
2. Epistemology
2.1 The Theory of Knowledge
2.2 Sense and perception
2.3 Positivism and post-positivism
3. Methodologies
3.1 Methodology Quantitative
3.2 Qualitative Methods
4. Reference systems
4.1 The Harvard system
4.2 The Bluebook´s system of The Harvard Law Review
4.3 The technical standards Portuguese: NP 405-1, 2, 3 and 4.
5. Planning
5.1 The "research question"
5.2 Proposal research
5.3 Plans
6. Legal Methodology
6.1 Methodology of Law, Positive Law and Natural Law.
6.2 Methodology of Law, Rhetoric and Hermeneutics
6.3 Law and Economics
6.4 Comparative Law

Evaluation Type

Weekly coursework and 2 writen tests

Teaching Resources

Sustainability Objectives

Keywords

Methodologies
Investigation
Epistemology
Hermeneutics
Reference

Main Bibliography