Geography 501: Research Design
Email: dmark@geog.buffalo.edu
Facts About the Course
SPRING
2005 INFORMATION: GEO
501
TIMETABLE:
Geography 501 meets once a week (Fridays), 12:00-12:50 pm.
CREDIT
HOURS: Geography 501 is a 1-credit course.
GRADING:
·
Weeks 2-10: Send a 200-word summary and comment on the
reading to dmark@buffalo.edu by 5pm
Thursday (20 %)
·
Written research proposal due April 1 (50 %)
·
10-minute Presentation of the proposal (30 %)
·
Presentation
Schedule
TEXTBOOKS:
·
Required: "Research Design" by Creswell
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Recommended: "Elements of Style" by Strunk
Course Outline, Spring 2005
- January 21: Course Introduction
- January 28: Designing Research
Projects
- Reading: Creswell, Chapter 1
- February 4: Finding Previous
Work- Citations Index and other sources
- Reading: Creswell, Chapter 2
- February 11: Research
ethics—plagiarism, using sources; human subjects
- February 18: (note: This week
only, class meets in Fillmore 352)
- Reading: Creswell, Chapter 4
- (February 24: Mark Diamond Research
Fund deadline)
- February 25:
- Reading: Creswell, Chapter 5
& 6
- March 4:
- Reading: Creswell, Chapter 7
& 8
- March 11:
- Reading: Creswell, Chapter 9
- March 18: UB Spring Recess:
Classes cancelled
- March 25:
- Reading: Creswell, Chapter 10
- April 1:
- Reading: Creswell, Chapter 11
- Written research proposals
also due
- April 8: Association of
American Geographers Meeting in Denver: Class cancelled
- April 15: Student
presentations of proposals
- April 22: Student
presentations of proposals
- April 29: Student
presentations of proposals
Course Resources
Last updated on February 10 2005
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