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Mon 17 Jan - Wed 19 Jan 2011
14:00 - 17:00

Venue: Titan Teaching Room 2

Provided by: Joint Schools' Social Sciences


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Module 13: Introduction to database design and use

Mon 17 Jan - Wed 19 Jan 2011

Description

This module is part of the Social Science Research Methods Course programme which is a shared platform for providing research students with a broad range of quantitative and qualitative research

Target audience

Mphil Students from participating departments taking the Social Science Research Methods Course as part of their research degree

Sessions

Number of sessions: 3

# Date Time Venue Trainer
1 Mon 17 Jan 2011   14:00 - 17:00 14:00 - 17:00 Titan Teaching Room 2 N. Mora-Sitja
2 Tue 18 Jan 2011   14:00 - 17:00 14:00 - 17:00 Titan Teaching Room 2 N. Mora-Sitja
3 Wed 19 Jan 2011   14:00 - 17:00 14:00 - 17:00 Titan Teaching Room 2 N. Mora-Sitja
Topics covered
  • Session 1: Introduction to designing a relational database
  • Session 2: Creating tables and queries
  • Session 3: Useful operations
Objectives

The objective is to provide basic introduction to databases

Aims
  • To learn to use Access menus;tool bars; viewing and browing tables
  • To create quick forms; develop queries using Boolean operators
  • To perform simpl statistical operations
Format

Presentations, demonstrations and practicals

Assessments

Three exercises

Textbook(s)
  • Hemingway, V. (1994). Using and Designing Databases for Academic Work: a Practical Guide. Newcastle
  • Coppock, T.(ed.) (1999). Information Technology and Scholarship Applications in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Oxford
Notes
  • To gain the maximum benefits from the course it is important that students do not see this course in isolation from the other MPhil courses or research training they are taking. Responsibility lies with each student to consider the potential for their own research using methods common in fields of the social sciences that may seem remote. Ideally this task will be facilitated by integration of the
Duration

Three sessions of three hours

Frequency

Three times in Lent term

Theme
Foundations of Social Science Research

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