STUDY NOTE NO.
Subject: Practical Research 1
Week: 3 Day: 1
Content Standard: Kinds of Research across Fields
Learning Competency: The learner provides examples of research in areas of interest (arts, humanities, sports, science, business,
agriculture and fisheries, information and communication technology, and social inquiry)
Category Description
Comparative study of
human cultures; how
customary ideas,
Anthropology actions, and institutions
shape individual and
collective experience
The study of how media
technologies and their
Comparative uses can enrich the lives
Media Studies of individuals locally,
nationally, and globally
The study of works of
art and architecture and
critical engagement with
Art and
their social, political,
Architecture
and material contexts
Focused on the political
dynamics of culture and
its historical
Cultural foundations, conflicts,
Studies defining traits,
aesthetics, and practices.
The study of the
behavior of individuals,
groups, and
Economics organizations when they
use scarce resources to
achieve desired ends
History The study of the past
and how it relates to
humans; specifically, the
analysis of a sequence of
past events, and the
determination of their
Subtopics (including but not Example Research
limited to) Projects
 Comparing
nationalism in
Cultural, physical, linguistic, and republics and
medical anthropology; archaeology monarchies
 Treatment of
HIV/AIDS in West
Africa
 Media production
and influences in
North Korea
 Bollywood's
Mass media, cultural studies, influence on the
digital media, film theory, games Indian social context
 Impact of electronic,
video and mobile
games on social
development of
teenagers
 Historical debates
about polychrome
Museum and exhibition studies, art sculpture in ancient
and gender, aesthetic philosophy, Greece
modes of creative production, new  Graphic techniques
technologies in art and architecture, in Soviet propaganda
posters
monuments, man-made landscapes,
patronage and audience, production  Expressions of
of space, design across scales nationalism in Le
Corbusier's plans for
Chandigarh
 Comparison of the
Can focus on a particular medium use of gestures across
or message: ideology, social class, various cultures
nationality, ethnicity, sexuality,  Race in comparative
gender, popular culture, etc. perspective
 Social movements:
Rethinking
globalization
 Why unions still
matter: The effects of
Microeconomics, macroeconomics, unionization on the
game theory, international distribution of
economics, labor, laws and employee earnings
policies, natural resources;  Factors influencing
behavioral, environmental, and the economic
cultural aspects of economics recession of 2008
 Trafficking
networks and the
Mexican drug war
Military, cultural, economic,  French politics and
environmental, gender, and public theater of the 17th and
history 18th centuries
 Russian and Soviet
history
 causes and effects
The study of the rules
underlying the structure
of language, and what
they reveal about the
general principles that
Linguistics
determine the
development of
language in the
individual and species
The study of written
Literature work
The study of general and
fundamental problems,
 
using a critical, systematic
approach and rational
Philosophy argument
The study of national,
state, and local
Political government, politics, and
Science policies.
Understanding how music
  functions, has changed
over time, and affects and
is affected by the cultures
Music
in which it is made
Research
The study of how science
Science, and technology affect and
Technology express human values,
and Society politics, and culture
The study of women,
gender, and sexuality in
Women’s and intersection with race,
Gender Studies ethnicity, religion, and
class
 Ref: https://getinspired.mit.edu/participating/categories
 Locality and feature
specificity in OCP
Phonetics, phonology, morphology, effects: Evidence
syntax, semantics, from Aymara, Dutch,
psycholinguistics, speech science and Javanese
and technology  German particles,
modality, and the
semantics of
imperatives
 Biblical allusions
present in modern
Fiction, non-fiction, novel, short literature
story, genres: romance, mystery,  Common themes in
etc. English Renaissance
literature
 Travel writing and
cultural encounters
 Can science explain
Epistemology, logic, metaphysics,
consciousness?
ethics and political philosophy,
 Is morality
aesthetics, philosophy of language,
objective?
philosophy of mind
 Do you know that
you are not dreaming?
Political theory, comparative politics,  Trends in voter
public administration, international turnout since the
relations, public law, political 1980's
methodology  Is representative
democracy the best
form of government? 
 Folk performance in
Cincinnati today
Music history, music in culture  Unusual key
(ethnomusicology), music theory and changes in the early
analysis, perception/cognition of works of Gustav
music, music technology Holst
 Studying the
average time to learn
notation software
 Technology in
Bioethics; science and politics; history American history
of science and technology; science,  Human-machine
innovation, and regulation; science, interactions
technology and identity; technology  Self representation
and privacy in social media
 Drugs, politics, and
culture
 Characteristics of
Women and development, gender and global female leaders
in the 21st century
technology, gender and media,
 Comparing
psychology of sex and gender, gender
workplace and social
equity, social policy, reproductive
policies in different
rights and technology, gender and
countries
sexual identity
 The history of
industrialization and
changing gender roles