Associate Professor - UWO Geography
Geography 9099 - Research Design and Presentation
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| Library (5%) |
| Proposal (40%) |
| Presentation (35%) |
| Weekly (20%) |
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Research Design and Presentation - (Grad. Course - Mandatory for MA/Sc)
2 lecture
hours, half course, Winter
Mar. 19/12 Reading posted - I added Kearns 2003 for today...relatively short..."food for thought".
Mar. 9/12 Presentation Schedule posted - follow the presentation link to the left.
Mar. 1/12 Deadline extended for draft literature review - I sense some of you could use some extra time. Please send your document to me by Monday 9am at the latest - to give us time to review and prepare comments.
Feb. 17/12 Write a draft literature review - like our last meeting, for our next meeting you will submit a document and we will conduct a peer review. Follow the link in the Meetings/Lecture Schedule area for informaiton about what is expected prior to next day's class.
Feb. 7/12 Write a one-pager by next Monday 9am - follow the link in the Meetings/Lecture Schedule area for next day's class. There is a ppt file with a description of a process that will have you submit a statement of your problem and research questions and allow your classmates to critically assess what you write prior to class.
Feb. 6/12 Annotated proposals - Ch 4 in Krathwohl and Smith makes repeated reference to Chs 11 and 12, so I have uploaded these two chapters to Owl for continuity's sake.
Feb. 1/12 Readings posted - the readings for next week are now posted on Owl
Jan. 24/12 Class Survey Results - the survey results are posted on Owl in the readings section of course content. Thanks everyone for uploading your multidisciplinary proposals, we will discuss those today.
Jan. 20/12 Readings for next week - I just made changes to the readings for next week - added Latour - lots to read! See the schedule, and find the readings on Owl.
Jan. 9/12 First Class - Please be prepared to discuss your proposed research in our first session. We will go over this syllabus and have a discussion about each student's research.
Dec. 16/11 Welcome! - I am looking forward to working with all of the new Masters students in the 2012 winter term. This is my first time teaching the course, so this webpage is new! Things will get added and edited leading up to the intro lecture and beyond.
First class - is Jan 10, see below.
Description
Research design is a practical
course leading towards the production of a provisional thesis
proposal and a public presentation of the proposal. The
logical structure of proposals and the substance of the arguments are
reviewed and rehearsed across a broad spectrum of research design
strategies. We will link design and method with the
philosophies discussed in term one.
Format
Tutorial/Discussion style. Most weeks
you will be asked to read material prior to each session and be
prepared to discuss this
material in detail.
| Instructor | Room | |
| Jamie Baxter | SSC 1407 | jamie.baxter@uwo.ca |
Timetable
| Lect/Lab | Day | Duration | Start Time | End Time | Room | Instructor |
| Lect 001 | 2 hours | Baxter |
| Component | Weight |
| Library | 5% |
| Written Proposal | 40% |
| Presentation of Proposal | 35% |
| Participation | 20% |
Text: none.
Additional readings: We will be reading material from various texts, journals and perhaps websites. They are all available on WebCt Owl or linked in the schedule below. As this is the first offering of this course readings may be added/changed often - so check back here often.
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| W | Date | Topic | Reading (see Web CT Owl) |
| 1 | Organizational class meeting and intiial discussion | none - be prepared to discuss learning objectives and aspirations | |
| 2 | Geography,
research design and
proposals |
Complete
this survey Clifford and Valentine (Ch 1) (2003) Sheppard (2004) Montello and Sutton (2006) Northey et al. - diagram (2009) |
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| 3 | Stating problems, asking questions, and the logic of enquiry | Latour (1999) Shaw et al. (2010) post one-pager on your multidisciplinary research project to Web-CT |
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| 4 | Locating literature - session led by Dan Sich - Geography Librarian | Complete
this survey Healey (2003) Go to the Electronic Instruction room Weldon |
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| 5 | From Problems to Measurement | Krathwohl and Smith (2005) Ch 3,4 | |
| 6 | Collecting Data 1 | Krathwohl
and Smith (2005) Ch 5, 11 your research problem and questions by Monday |
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| 7 | READING WEEK | ||
| 8 | no class away AAG | ||
| 9 | Ethics and Safety | Bullard (2003) Hay (2003) |
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| 10 | Presentations | Shewchuck
(2012) Gabriel (2008) |
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| 11 | Methodology/Design | Peer review -
write your draft methodology (design) to Jamie by Mon. 9am Kearns 2003 |
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| 12 | Student Presentations | none | |
| 13 | Student Presentations | none |
