Project Work in Sustainable Urbanism and Spatial Planning
Objectives
a) To exercise the ability to research and to select and read relevant and appropriate bibliography.
b) To improve the ability of delimitate and formulate the objective of the research.
c) To exercise theoretical, methodological and critical analysis skills.
d) Display processes of reflective thinking.
e) Display a scientific and academical ethic behaviour.
f) Master the global organisation of the text displaying coherence.
g) Write in appropriate scholarly style, respecting quotation and bibliographic referencing norms.
h) Write with objectivity, concision and fluency, applying appropriate sintaxis and lexicon.
General characterization
Code
722041124
Credits
42.0
Responsible teacher
Margarida Angélica Pires Pereira Esteves
Hours
Weekly - Available soon
Total - 1176
Teaching language
Portuguese
Prerequisites
None
Bibliography
Bibliografia específica adequada à investigação de cada estudante.
Dependent on the nature of each students research project.
Teaching method
Presentation and discussion of research questions and issues in .... Analysis of action research projects and study cases; critical and reflective analysis of the individual research project. Individual and small group tutoring sessions to support the organisation and writing of the project.
Evaluation method
Evaluation method - The project work will be evaluated during a public viva before a jury, according to the MA course regulations.(100%)
Subject matter
a) To research: to be or not to be and for what.
b) research methodologies on
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c) Research questions and objectives.
d) Data collection and analysis; presentation and discussion of results.
e) Searching, synthesizing, summarizing and critiquing.
f) Textual organization and planning.
g) Assessment of research in
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