Admission requirements
This course is only available for students in the BA Urban Studies programme.
Alongside this Research Lab you will follow the Urban Behavioral Science Thesis Seminar and the Urban Behavioral Science 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 behavioural science research lab explores the field of behavioural science in the urban context. During this research seminar, student will learn how to identify a relevant knowledge gap from the literature, how to translate this into a scientific research question, how to operationalize the research question into (qualitative and quantitative) behavioral science research methodologies, and how to analyze and interpret data resulting from these methodologies. Students will gain experience with these skills within the context of a highly relevant societal topic: socioeconomic health inequalities. This research seminar focuses mainly on the ‘healthy city’ theme, but students can choose to integrate a focus on sustainability, multicultural city, and safety as well,
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 Behavioral Science 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;
Can operationalize a research question into methodologies 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:
- Can analyze and interpret data from methodologies common to the chosen discipline.
Timetable
The timetables are avalable through My Timetable.
Mode of instruction
Seminars.
Assessment method
Assessment
The course is assessed by 4 assignments:
Individual written starting assignment
Written group assignment
Individual presentation
Individual written final assignment
Weighing
| Partial grade | Weighing |
|---|---|
| Individual written starting assignment | 10% |
| Written group assignment | 30% |
| Individual presentation | 20% |
| Individual written 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.