Doctoral Seminar II

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

Sessions are held on seminar model, promoting the collective discussion of texts and working materials relating to the Thesis projects. They are based on the active participation of students, particularly through the presentation of texts and coordination of the collective discussion.

Learning Outcomes

The study unit continues the Doctoral Seminar I, insisting though on a methodological perspective with a view to preparing final versions of thesis projects. It promotes:

1. reflection on current topics of world urban panorama, according to some international organizations;

2. the  planning of the collection, compilation and use of information with a view to the completion of a doctoral thesis;

3. transversal debates around sociocultural issues and city cultures. 

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. How to make an oral presentation of the project;

2. Sociological writing techniques;

3. Statistics and documental sources on the city and urban cultures;

4. Perspectives on current research topics (according to the students’ research topics).

Head Lecturer(s)

Maria Paula Abreu Pereira da Silva

Assessment Methods

Assessment
1. oral presentation of the current version of the thesis project 25%; 2. methodological comment on a research paper 15%; 3. writing a comprehensive essay in one of the thematic areas (3000 to 5000 words) 60%. : 100.0%

Bibliography

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Bergman, M.M.,Sayer, A., Realism and Social Science, Los Angeles: Sage, 2010

Bernard, H.R., Social Research Methods: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches, Sage, 2000

Burdett R.,& Sudji, D., The Endless City. London, Phaidon, 2007.

Carta, M., Creative City. Barcelona, LISt., 2007

Denzin, N.K.; Y.S. Lincoln, The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research, Thousand Oakes, Sage, 2005

Law, J. (2004), After method. New York, Routledge.

Lury, C e N. Wakeford, Inventive Methods: The Happening of the Social, Routledge, 2012 .

Miller, D.C. e N.J. Salkind (org.), Handbook of Research Design and Social Measurement, Sage, 2002

Patton, M.Q., Qualitative Research and Evaluation Methods, Thousand Oakes, Sage, 2002

Shortell T. e Brown, E. Walking in the European City. Londres e Nova Iorque, Routledge, 2014

United Nations, World Urbanization Prospects: The 2011 Revision, 2012.