Qualitative Approaches to the City (P01785)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : GEO-P-HGQAC

This course provides postgraduate training in qualitative approaches in urban studies. It delivers advanced understandings of the role of qualitative methods in urban research, and specifically in relation to more 'scientific' understandings. It allows students to develop an understanding of a range of relevant methodological approaches by way of the following themes: urban semiotics, urban ethnography, cinematic cities, sensory cities, city voices, urban morphologies, and the city as text. The course content considers specifically the relationship between these methodological themes and, on the one hand, the ways we 'know' the city (epistemology) and, on the other, the way we research the city (techniques). The course delivers this content through a structure in which an actual city space is investigated using these differing qualitative lenses.

Entry Requirements

? Pre-requisites : Available only to postgraduate students

? Costs : N/A

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Postgraduate Research Courses (School of GeoSciences), (School of GeoSciences, Schedule N)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Semester 1 (Blocks 1-2)

? Contact Teaching Time : 2 hour(s) per week for 11 weeks

All of the following classes

Type	Day	Start	End	Area
Lecture	Wednesday	11:10	13:00	Central

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

Students undertaking this course will:
- Acquire and advanced understanding of the role of qualitative methods in urban research
- Understand the relationship between qualitative methodologies and wider debates about urbanism and modernity, both in 'First World' and 'Third World' cities.
- Understand the distinctive attributes of cities that are uncovered by drawing upon qualitative methodologies
- Attain advanced knowledge of the core qualitative research methods of urban studies
- Understand the varied knowledge outputs that each of these methods
- Be equipped to discern the appropriate research methodology for their research question.
- Gain practical experience in applying techniques of data gathering and analysis associated with these methodologies.