Week 1 (2/20)：Introduction    

Week 2 (2/27)：Research Ethics and IRB

Week 3 (3/6)：Qualitative I--Foundations of Qualitative Research

Week 4 (3/13)：Qualitative II—Qualitative Data Collection

Week 5 (3/20)：Qualitative III—Qualitative Data Collection

Week 6 (3/27)：Qualitative IV--Data Analysis in Qualitative Research

Week 7 (4/3): Spring Break, No Class

Week 8 (4/10): Guest Lecture I

Week 9 (4/17): Presentation I

Week 10 (4/24): Quantitative I--Foundations of Quantitative Research

Week 11 (5/1): Quantitative II—Quantitative Data Collection

Week 12 (5/8): Quantitative III—Quantitative Data Collection

Week 13 (5/15): Quantitative IV--Data Analysis in Quantitative Research

Week 14 (5/22): World Congress of Taiwan Studies Assignment

Week 15 (5/29): Presentation II

Week 16 (6/3): Review

Week 17 & 18: Self-learning activities

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Your final grade will be based on：

(1) Class participation (20%)：Students are required to read all reading materials and participate in the classroom discussion

(2) Writing assignments (30%)：Each students is required to turn in writing assignments about the reading materials and selected papers from the World Congress of Taiwan Studies.

(3) Group presentation (50%)：Each students will ask to do a presentation. Detailed instructions will be announced in the first week of the course. Also, each student will turn in his/her final proposal on the last day of the class.

There is no required textbook for this course. Instead, readings will be assigned throughout the semester as the course progresses.