Admission requirements
This course is only available for students in the BA Urban Studies.
Participation in Introduction to Methodology
Description
In this course students will get familiar with several types of data collection in the social sciences such as survey-research, participant observation, and conducting interviews and focus groups. Students will acquire practical skills of data collection through several assignments that are imbedded in field laboratories (partially outside the university, i.e. in the town of the Hague).
Course objectives
Students will have knowledge of four important methodological approaches in social research: survey, interview, observation, and participant observation
Students will have the skill to formulate research questions based on concrete human behaviour in urban settings
Students will have gained insight in how to choose appropriate methods of data collection
Students will know the benefits and pitfalls over the several types of data collection
Students will have practical skills in conducting interviews, making systematic observations, doing participant observation and designing a questionnaire
Students will be able to reflect on their own role as a researcher
Timetable
The timetable is available on the BA Urban Studies website
Mode of instruction
Lecture
Seminar
Course Load
Total course load is 5 EC (1 EC = 28 hours), equal to 140 hours, devoted to:
Attending lectures: 10
Attending tutorials: 10
Reading (preparation lectures) and learning: 84 (circa 500 pages)
Assignments (including time spent at field laboratories): 32
Exam: 4
Assessment method
Assessment and weighing
Overall quality assignments (30%)
Multiple choice exam (70%)
Both elements are necessary for final grading.
A student is allowed to miss a maximum of one tutorial.
Resit
Yes. A re-sit is possible for the final exam.
Exam review
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.
Blackboard
Blackboard will be used for:
Distributing lecture handouts
Supplementary material
Announcements
Discussion board for students
Information grades
Reading list
A. Bryman, Social Research Methods
Knox, P. & S. Pinch, Urban Social Geography, 196-209.
Article by/about Erving Goffman
Registration
Enrolment through uSis is mandatory.
General information about uSis is available on the website
Registration Studeren à la carte and Contractonderwijs
Not applicable
Contact
Remarks
No remarks.