Geography 501: Research Design

Instructor: David M. Mark

Email: dmark@buffalo.edu

Facts About the Course

SPRING 2008 INFORMATION: GEO 501 (Registration Number 453778)

TIMETABLE: Geography 501 meets once a week, Wednesday, 12:00-12:50 pm.

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 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):

· Recommend: "Research Design" by Creswell

· Recommended: "An Introduction to Scientific Research Methods in Geography" by Montello and Sutton

· Recommended: "Elements of Style" by Strunk

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Course Outline, Spring 2008

• January 16: week 1. Course Introduction
• January 23: week 2. Designing Research Projects
• Reading: Creswell, Chapter 1
• January 30: week 3. Finding Previous Work- Citations Index and other sources
• Reading: Creswell, Chapter 2
• Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index,Arts & Humanities Citation Index
• CiteSeer (citations in computing and information sciences)
• Google Scholar
• February 6: week 4. Research ethics—plagiarism, using sources; human subjects
• Reading: Creswell, Chapter 3
• Article on Academic Plagiarism
• February 13: week 5
• Reading: Creswell, Chapter 4
• February 20: week 6
• Reading: Creswell, Chapter 5
• (February 22: Mark Diamond Research Fund deadline)
• February 27: week 7
• Reading: Creswell, Chapter 6
• March 5: week 8
• Reading: Creswell, Chapter 7
• March 12: UB Spring Recess: Classes cancelled
• March 19: week 9
• Reading: Creswell, Chapter 8
• March 26: week 10
• Reading: Creswell, Chapter 9
• Written research proposal due!
• April 2: week 11
• Reading: Creswell, Chapter 10
• April 9: week 12
• Reading: Creswell, Chapter 11
• April 16: Class cancelled (Association of American Geographers Meeting in Boston)
• April 23: Student presentations of proposals (non-presenting students required to attend)
• Apr 30: Additional student presentations of proposals; non-presenting students are encouraged to attend
• May 22: Mark Diamond Research Fund deadline

Course Resources:

· Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index,Arts & Humanities Citation Index

· CiteSeer (citations in computing and information sciences

· Google Scholar

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Last updated on January 13 2008

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