Training Center Hosts Course on How to Choose Research Problem

As part of the first training program on "Research Skills," the Training and Development Center, in collaboration with the College of Arts and Humanities at the Islamic University of Minnesota, organized a training course titled "How to Choose a Research Problem," delivered by Dr. Suhair Sayed Al-Khalil, a faculty member at the university. The course consisted of three lectures, with the first held on Tuesday, July 22, the second on Thursday, July 24, and the third on Sunday, July 27, 2025, each lasting two hours from 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM (Makkah time).

The course aimed to assist students in understanding the criteria for selecting an appropriate research problem, developing the skill to generate research ideas from their field of study, enhancing their ability to formulate a clear research question, identifying and recognizing research gaps, and assessing the feasibility and applicability of their research.

The curriculum covered the difference between a topic and a research problem, sources for inspiring research problems, characteristics of a good problem such as originality, significance, and solvability, as well as the steps to analyze a problem and convert it into a research question. It also included tools for analyzing research gaps and practical exercises for selecting problems in various disciplines, along with supervisor review and modification of the research problem.

The course targeted undergraduate and master's students preparing to undertake a graduation project or a scientific thesis.

Additionally, the center provided participants who were committed to completing the program with accredited certificates upon finishing each of the three courses, and shared a file via Google Drive links containing details of each course, course materials, and references provided by the trainer to the participants.