Researching the City (P02319)

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

This subject is designed to provide specialist postgraduate research training in the methods used for understanding and analysing cities. It specifically serves students enrolled in two complimentary Masters programmes. It will serve as an option for students enrolled in the Masters in Science by Research (Human Geography) run out of the School of GeoSciences, as well as offering a core course for the taught Masters in The City, which is housed in Arts, Culture and Environments but jointly delivered by Geography. It will also be open to students in the Graduate School of Social and Political Science.

The subject assumes that advanced level students require two types of knowledge in terms of researching the city: (1) an historicised and appropriately contextualised understanding of the different knowledge frames by which cities have been recorded, comprehended and studied (including a sense of the situated production of these distinct knowledge frames); and (2) an introduction into the techniques of data collection, representation and analysis that flow from these quite distinctive knowledge lenses, including a sense of how they might serve distinctive research approaches and goals.

Within this broad framework, students would be taught about key analytical and representational traditions within urban studies.

Entry Requirements

? This course is not available to visting students.

Subject Areas

Home subject area

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

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : To be arranged/Unknown

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

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

At the end of the course students will:
- Appreciate the skills required for postgraduate research on the city
- Understand what methods and techniques are relevant to what kinds of studies and projects;
- Be equipped to discern the appropriate methodologies for the research projects they wish to pursue
- Know the relationship between theory and methodology and techniques;
- Be able to analysis critically different urban knowledge frames and associated methodologies
- To ascertain and apply specific data collection and analysis frameworks
- Be able to present in written, visual, verbal and other forms, analyses of specific components of the city.