Admission requirements
This course is only available for students in the BA Urban Studies programme.
Alongside this Research Lab you will follow the Urban History and Development Thesis Seminar and the Urban History and Development Thesis.
Description
The research lab introduces students to a specific discipline in urban research. Through exploring specialist research, students become acquainted with a large volume of scholarship and learn how to work with a high amount of sources. This allows students to develop transferable research skills in preparation for writing the thesis.
The Urban History and Development Research Lab approaches questions pertaining to the urban space from the perspectives and methods developed by urban historians, with a particular focus on the non-Western cities in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (examples may include but are not limited to Istanbul, Calcutta, Mexico City, Cairo, etc.). Students learn about existing research on the historical development of cities, the relevance of the archival records and past perspectives for the present and future of urban environments. The selected case studies for the course reflect various urban studies themes (sustainability, health, multicultural city, and safety), studied with historical methods,
Course objectives
General learning outcomes
See tab Additional information for the overview of the programme's general learning outcomes.
Course objectives, pertaining to the Urban History and Development Research Lab
After completing the course, students can:
Reflect on ongoing debates (academic and/or societal) related to urban themes in the chosen discipline;
Work with analytical approaches commonly used in the chosen discipline, building upon knowledge and insights from methodological electives;
Collect data or evidence in ways common to the chosen discipline;
Connect debates, evidence and approaches of the chosen discipline to one or more of the four key themes of the programme (health, diversity, sustainability, safety).
Learning objectives specific to this Research Lab
After completing the course, students:
Have knowledge of existing research in urban history, with particular emphasis on non-Western cities
Can critically use primary and secondary sources for historical research on urban environments
Can identify and apply the most important methods in this field;
Can locate and analyse their own case studies and examples in this field;
Can situate their analysis in the context of existing scholarship.
Timetable
The timetables are avalable through My Timetable.
Mode of instruction
Seminars.
Assessment method
Assessment
The course is assessed by 4 assignments:
Written starting assignment
Group assignment
Presentation
Final written assignment
Weighing
| Partial grade | Weighing |
|---|---|
| Starting assignment | 10% |
| Group assignment | 30% |
| Presentation | 20% |
| Final assignment | 40% |
End grade
To successfully complete the course, please take note that the end grade of the course is established by determining the weighted average of all assessment components.
Resit
If the end grade is insufficient (lower than 5.5), there is a possibility of retaking the final assignment only.
If students need to retake any course for a second time, they are required to retake all elements of the course assessment, and may not carry over individual assessment grades from previous years.
Faculty regulations concerning participation in resits are listed in article 4.1 of the Faculty Course and Examination Regulations.
Inspection and feedback
How and when an exam review will take place will be disclosed together with the publication of the exam results at the latest. If a student requests a review within 30 days after publication of the exam results, an exam review will have to be organized.
Reading list
To be announced.
Registration
In the course of block 2, students will receive an application form to enroll for the thesis seminar in semester 2. In the form, students elaborate on their preference for a particular seminar. The specifics of the procedure will be distributed amongst students as soon as possible during semester 1.
Students will be assigned a supervisor through their thesis seminar. You follow the thesis seminar in the semester in which you plan to write your thesis.
Do not register for this course in MyStudymap.
Registration Exchange
For the registration of exchange students contact Humanities International Office.
Contact
For substantive questions, contact the lecturer listed in the right information bar.
For questions about enrolment, admission, etc, contact the Education Administration Office: Student Affairs Office for BA Urban Studies
Remarks
All other information.