279 | This additional study programme at CHN university provides you with a solid basis for successfully doing a master course in one of the social sciences, including Economics and Business Studies, while working on your Bachelor’s degree.

Furthermore, it offers you an intellectual challenge and a theoretical deepening of the Bachelor’s curriculum. It’s precisely the combination of professional and intellectual competences that gives you the possibility to distinguish yourself.

Accordingly, an important objective of the Honours programme is to give you the opportunity to make the most of your intellectual capabilities.

Our society is inextricably bound up with the growth and application of scientific knowledge in many areas, in everyday life as well as in the various professional practices.

This knowledge is acquired by doing research, not only at universities but in all kinds of
institutions and companies. Research can be primarily directed either at scientific aims
or at practical applications, but all research is subject to severe methodological criteria.

This is connected with the fact that scientific knowledge claims to be more objective, more
certain and more reliable than other forms of knowledge. It is for that reason that Research Methodology, including an individual research assignment, will form the heart of the CHN Honours programme.

In the case of numerical research data statistical analyses and techniques are helpful in interpreting and summarizing data as well as drawing the right conclusions from that data. In view of the nature of Statistics, some mathematical background is required.

Besides, Mathematics is an important model language and scientific knowledge is usually
based on some model of reality because of its complexity.

Scientific knowledge is a specific kind of knowledge. Philosophy of Science deals with the characteristics of scientific knowledge and with different points of view concerning the nature of science. Because of the great impact of science on our society, the relationship between science on the one hand and culture en society on the other can not be ignored.