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After completing the course, students should have knowledge of how scientific studies are conducted, including all phases from planning up to publishing, and they should be able to start the work on their own Master's thesis. The course will give students a basic understanding on how to plan a scientific study, of the collection, processing and analysis of data and of the presentation of results in a Master's degree. This will be documented by working out a plan and a description of the student's own future Master's degree work. After completing the course, students should have the skills needed to choose problems suitable for scientific studies, gather relevant information on the problem, formulate scientific questions and hypotheses to investigate, deduce predictions that are to be tested, plan how the data should be collected in a representative and effective way, plan and conduct laboratory or field studies/experiments, process and insert data into computer programs, choose statistical analyses suitable for the data, interpret the statistical analyses, present the results in figures and tables, present, in a written form, the scientific study in the form of a Master's thesis with a summary, introduction, methods, results, discussion and references, present the material using precise, scientific formulation including scientific English, publish and distribute the Master's thesis. The course will also touch upon basic ethical questions related to research and give students advice on how to handle ethical problems in research.