Project Work on Sustainable Urbanism and Spatial Planning
Code
722041124
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Geografia e Planeamento Regional
Credits
42
Weekly hours
-
Teaching language
Portuguese
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.
Prerequisites
n.a.
Subject matter
a) To research: to be or not to be and for what.
b) research methodologies on ….
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 ….
Bibliography
Bibliografia específica adequada à investigação de cada estudante.
Dependent on the nature of each student’s 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
The project work will be evaluated during a public viva before a jury, according to the MA course regulations.