URB 8620 - Advanced Seminar in Research Design and Methods

3 Credit Hours
Description
This course provides doctoral students and research-track Master’s students with essential skills for developing a research proposal. It introduces students to the fundamentals of research design in social sciences, covering topics such as theories of knowledge, quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods, causality and validity, and ethical and practical considerations. We will contextualize the design and implementation of social research in urban studies and practice reading and critiquing empirical urban research.