Student must know: forms of development of scientific knowledge; methods and stages of conducting scientific research.
The student should be able to: apply alternative scientific approaches to the disclosure of the essence of economic and managerial processes and phenomena; use heuristic methods to find solutions to solutions to problems in international economic activity.

Pre-requisite: International Economic Relations.
Correctional material: scientific research and seminars on their subjects

Forms of development of scientific knowledge. Methodology and methods of scientific research. Sociological research. Methods of analysis of interrelationships between socio-economic phenomena. Basic stages of conducting scientific research. Work on the text and presentation of the results of scientific research.

1. Metodolohiya naukovyh doslidzhen` ta metodyka vykladannya menedzhmentu zovnishn`oekonomichnoyi diyal`nosti: Navch. posibny`k. / Hladuns`kyj V.N., Knyaz` S.V., Pushak Ya.Ya., Mel`ny`k M.O. – L`viv: Vy`davny`cztvo Nacional`nogo universy`tetu «L`vivs`ka politehnika, 2003. – 172 s.».
2. Osnovy` naukovyh doslidzhen`: Pidruchnyk dlya stud. ekon. specz. vuziv / M.G. Biluha. – K.: Vy`shha shkola., 1997. – 271 s.
3. Metodologiya social`no-ekonomichnogo doslidzhennya: Navch. posib. / Ganin V.I., Ganina N.V., Hurova K.D. – K.: Centr uchbovoyi literatury`, 2008. – 224 s.
4. Metody naukovyh doslidzhen`: Navch. Posibny`k / Hrabchenko A.I., Fedorovych V.O., Harashhenko Ya.M. – X.: NTU "HPI", 2009. – 142 s.
5. Metodologiya naukovyh doslidzhen`: Navch. posib. / Yerina A.M., Zahozhaj V.B., Yerin D.L. – K.: Centr uchbovoyi literatury`, 2004. – 212 s.
6. Metodolohiya ta organizaciya naukovyh doslidzhen`: Navch. posibnyk / O.V. Krushel`ny`cz`ka. - K.: Kondor, 2003. - 192 s.

Current control (30%) - implementation and protection of laboratory work on registration of reports;
Final control (70%), including:
- Testing - Written Tasks (50%);
- oral answer (20%).