1. Research method course syllabi A quick Internet search Jean Claude Barihuta, Callixte Gatali, Wim Buysse

2. Method: - keywords “research method course syllabus” - in English – French – Dutch - using - Google - Queryserver - Infoseek

3. Why ? - to look around what is available - to see if we can learn something from it - to see what is meant by “Research Method Courses” - to see whether it can be helpful for our universities

4. Method: - in database - university (by cont) – country - type of department - topics taught - teaching method - taught when - software used

5. Universities by continent

6. Department

7. Topics % of universities (n = 43) Research process 79 Data collection/measuring 70 Surveys58 Experimental methods 53 Data management 53 Sampling49 Descriptive statistics 42 Ethical issues 40 Editorial guidelines 28 Inferential statistics 23 Class issues 14 Library management tools 9 Cultural issues 9 Gender issues 7 Which topics ?

8. Which teaching method ?

9. Number of different teaching methods used within the same course ?

10. Taught when ?

11. Software used ? - in 33 % of the cases some software is used - mainly SPSS - rest = specialized software in specialized modules

12. Thank you and GBU!!! Thank you and GBU!!!