PHAR 5020 - Basics of Research Design

Course Director: Dr. Andrea Giuffrida

Semester(s) Offered: Summer

Credits: 1.5

Course Description:

The course aims at teaching first year graduate students fundamentals of research design and analysis of scientific literature to orient them with setting up scientific experiments and writing grant proposals. The course is divided in 3 sections:

1. Research Design: Students are taught how to choose testable hypotheses, design an experiment, and control variables.
2. Communicating Scientific Data: Provides guidelines for communicating scientific data, writing a manuscript, and reviewing scientific papers.
3. Getting Scientific Ideas Funded: Provides guidelines for the preparation of grant proposals.