Undergraduate Course: Qualitative Research and the City (GEGR10081)
Course Outline
| School |
School of Geosciences |
College |
College of Science and Engineering |
| Course type |
Standard |
Availability |
Not available to visiting students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) |
SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate) |
Credits |
20 |
| Home subject area |
Geography |
Other subject area |
None |
| Course website |
None |
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| Course description |
This course is one of a suite of research elective courses offering Honours level (4th year) undergraduates research training. It will build on 3rd year courses to provide training in qualitative approaches in urban geography. It introduces students to the role of qualitative methods in urban research more generally, and to a suite of relevant methodologies and techniques, including city as text, urban semiotics, urban ethnography, cinematic cities, sensory cities, city voices, urban morphologies, and chronogeographies. The course content considers specifically the relationship between these methodological themes, the ways we 'know' the city (theory building), and the way we research the city (techniques). The course delivers this content through a structure in which an actual city space is investigated and reported upon using these differing qualitative lenses. |
Entry Requirements
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites |
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| Prohibited Combinations |
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Other requirements |
None
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| Additional Costs |
None |
Course Delivery Information
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
Students undertaking this course will:
- Acquire understanding of the role of qualitative methods in urban research
- Understand the relationship between qualitative methodologies and wider debates about urbanism and modernity
- Understand the distinctive attributes of cities that qualitative methodologies uncover
- Attain knowledge of the core qualitative research methods of urban studies
- Be equipped to discern the appropriate research methodology for specific research questions and objectives
- Gain practical experience in applying techniques of data gathering and analysis associated with these methodologies
- Gain experience in synthesising and interpreting findings from set urban qualitative research exercises
- Gain experience working in a small group as well as independent work
- Gain experience in reporting on findings in oral and written form |
Assessment Information
Class assessment: As specified in course handbook
Degree assessment: One 4,000 word written assignment |
Special Arrangements
| Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser |
Dr Jane Jacobs
Tel: (0131 6)50 2515
Email: Jane.Jacobs@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary |
Mrs Catherine Campbell
Tel: (0131 6)50 2572
Email: cathy.campbell@ed.ac.uk |
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