Geography 501: Research Design
Email: dmark@buffalo.edu
Facts About the
Course
SPRING
2011 INFORMATION: GEO
501 (Registration Number 367751)
TIMETABLE:
Geography 501 meets once a week, Thursdays, 2:00-2:50 pm, in Wilkeson 145H.
CREDIT
HOURS: Geography 501 is a 1-credit course.
GRADING:
· Weeks 2-12: Send a
200-word summary and/or comment on the reading to dmark@buffalo.edu by 5pm each TUESDAY (14 %
of grade)
· Attendance (6 % of
grade)
· Written research
proposal due March 28 (50 % of grade)
· 10-minute
Presentation of the proposal (30 % of grade)
TEXTBOOK(s):
· Required: "Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative,
and Mixed Methods Approaches" (Third Edition) by John W. Creswell
· Recommended: "Elements of Style" by Strunk
Course Outline, Spring 2011
- January 20: week 1. Course
Introduction, goals, student self-introductions
- January 27: week 2. Designing
Research Projects
- Reading: Creswell, Chapter 1
- February 3: week 3. Finding
Previous Work- Citations Index and other sources
- February 10: week 4.
- Reading: Creswell, Chapter 3
- February 17: week 5. Research
ethics—plagiarism, using sources; human subjects
- (February 18, 3:00 pm: Mark
Diamond Research Fund deadline)
- February 24: week 6
- Reading: Creswell, Chapter 5
- March 3: week 7 (DMM in at a
Conference)
- Reading: Creswell, Chapter 6
- March 10: week 8
- Reading: Creswell, Chapter 7
- March 14-18: UB Spring Recess:
Classes cancelled
- March 24: week 9
- Reading: Creswell, Chapter 8
- March 31: week 10
- Reading: Creswell, Chapter 9
- Written research proposal due March 31!
- April 7: week 11
- Reading: Creswell, Chapter 10
- April 14: Class cancelled (Association of American Geographers Meeting
in Seattle, WA; attend the meeting or work on your proposal!)
- April 21: week 12
- April 28: Student
presentations of proposals (non-presenting students required to
attend)
- May 2: Last day of classes
- To be scheduled: Additional
student presentations of proposals; non-presenting students are
encouraged to attend
- (May 20, 3:00 pm: Mark
Diamond Research Fund deadline
Course Resources:
· Science Citation
Index, Social Science Citation Index,Arts
& Humanities Citation Index
· Google
Scholar
· CiteSeer
(citations in computing and information sciences)
Last updated on January
18 2011
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