Course description
The aim of this course is to enhance the doctoral student’s capacity to identify, analyze and critically reflect upon theories, concepts and problems in information literacy, philosophy of science and research ethics, especially problems that may rise in relation to medical research. The aim is also to provide the doctoral students with extended possibilities to develop a scientific and ethical approach to medical research.
This course is given jointly for the Research School in Health Care Science.
Prerequisites and Selection
Prerequisite courses, or equivalent
No prerequisite courses, or equivalent, demanded for this course.
Selection
Selection will be based on:
1) start date of doctoral studies (priority given to earlier start date).
2) the relevance of the course syllabus for the applicant’s individual study plan/research (according to written motivation).
Course director
Gert Helgesson
Course syllabus
C7F5302
Department
Department of Learning, informatics, Management and Ethics
Doctoral programme
Health Care Science (Puf-V)
Type of course
Philosophy of Science, Research Ethics
Keywords
Information Literacy, Research Ethics, Philosophy of Science