課程目標 (Course Objectives)
This course is built on the assumption that the doctorate students have completed basic required courses on social work research. In order to cultivate a research producer-participant, the objectives of this course are to expect students:
(1)to initiate research activities to obtain knowledge generalization toward practice interest;
(2)to require sophisticated competence in research design, inquiry methods, and theory formulation;
(3)to involve in the recognition of values, assumptions, attitudes, and limitation in a research activity;
(4)to learn how to identify a research study in nature,
(5)to incorporate ideographic and nomothetic research methods for practice studies; and,
(6)to examine philosophical concern for research methodology for shaping practice knowledge and professional growth.
課程內涵主要包括有：
1. 研究典範與哲理，
2. 研究之主體內容，
3. 探索性研究，
4. 描述性研究，
5. 敘述性研究，
6. 評鑑性研究。

Course Objectives
This course is built on the assumption that the doctorate students have completed basic required courses on social work research. In order to cultivate a research producer-participant, the objectives of this course are to expect students:
(1) to initiate research activities to obtain knowledge generalization towards practice interest;
(2) to require sophisticated competence in research design, inquiry methods, and theory formulation;
(3) to involve in the recognition of values, assumptions, attitudes, and limitation in a research activity;
(4) to learn how to identify a research study in nature,
(5) to incorporate ideaographic and nomothetic research methods for practice studies; and,
(6) to examine philosophical concern for research methodology for shaping practice knowledge and professional growth.
The main contents of the course include:
1. Study classics and philosophy,
2. The main content of the research,
3. Exploring research,
4. Descriptive research,
5. Declarative research,
6. Evaluational research.

The required readings are indicated in each individual unit.

The required readings are indicated in each individual unit.