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Social Realities in the Global South, BA
Social Realities in the Global South, BA
Social Realities in the Global South, BA
After completing the course, students will be able to identify global and local power relations and inequalities and assess their impact on the everyday lives of people. Students will gain and develop skills in applying critical thinking, and building arguments based on theoretical concepts to identify and examine contemporary issues in urban development from a focus on the Global South.
The course consists of two parts: a lecture and a seminar each week. The interactive lectures revolve around concepts, debates, and theories of inequality, justice, and power relations in contemporary urban development. Seminar sessions are run in a small group format, where students either watch a documentary or read an article as an example of theories and concepts introduced in the lecture session. A role playing game is also a weekly exercise.
The outline of the course is as follows:
1. Global South, Development and Cities
2. Financialisation of Housing
3. Gentrification: A Global Process?
4. Displacement
5. Tenure Insecurity
6. Urban Movements and Resistance
Qualitative Research Methods, MA
Social Realities in the Global South, BA
Social Realities in the Global South, BA
Through lectures, group, and individual assignments, and jointly reading and discussing journal articles and book chapters, the course takes a wider perspective on qualitative research. To complete this course, students will need to participate in all scheduled meetings and do independent and group work.
The themes we will cover are as follows:
1. What is Qualitative Research?
2. Perspectives on Social Scientific Research
3. Finding a Focus and Designing Qualitative Research
4. Qualitative Interviewing and Focus Groups
5. Discourse Analysis and Document Analysis
6. Qualitative Coding
Learning goals: This course examines qualitative research design and methods to deepen the skills acquired in the BA studies on qualitative methods and methods for conducting MA Thesis research. The students will gain and develop their skills in gathering data, designing qualitative research, using qualitative research methods, and setting up research questions.
PhD Seminar, Global Development Studies
Social Realities in the Global South, BA
PhD Seminar, Global Development Studies
After completing the course, students will be able to:
· Define different schools of thought in social research from historical materialism to poststructuralism to develop critical thinking.
· Develop and design their research proposal and doctoral thesis plan.
· Identify and recognize writing methods for different purposes.
· Manage to organize their time.
· Understand and reorganize their own writing habits and recognize other scholar’s habits in writing.
· Develop skills in giving and getting constructive feedback.
The Outline of the Course:
1. Introduction to the module and each other; the nature, role, and purpose of planning research
2. The research process: creating knowledge and meaning (research questions; the role of theories)
3. How to write: We will discuss different types of academic writing and set up a writing group
4. Writing a research proposal: We will have a peer discussion of each other’s one-page research proposals.
5. Draft papers: What is constructive feedback? Being an opponent/referee (I)
6. Draft papers: What is constructive feedback? Being an opponent/referee (II)
7. Draft papers: What is constructive feedback? Being an opponent/referee (III)