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URP- 803 Planning Research Methods
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Campus
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SCEE (NIT)
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Programs
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PG
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Session
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Fall Semester 2016
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Course Title
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Planning Research Methods
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Course Code
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URP- 803
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Credit Hours
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3
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Pre-Requisutes
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Course Objectives
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Course Objectives: This course provides in-depth understanding of various research methods and their significances.
Course Outcomes: The student will be able to understand various research methods and their significances and will be able to prepare their own research proposals.
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Detail Content
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- Why to do research in planning? Expectations from a piece of research.
- Types of research, various research methods, their use and limitations;
- Principles of selecting appropriate research methods for an inquiry.
- Design and research process. Critically evaluating published research.
- Measurement in the social sciences: validity and reliability and how to assess them. The nature of quantitative and qualitative research and their integration.
- Philosophy of quantitative research. Experiments and experimental design. Survey research: types and aims of surveys, Sampling and generalization.
- Structured interviews and self-created questionaire: differences between them; relationship to measurement issues. Content Analysis.
- Techniques of analyzing quantitative data. Hypotheses testing and identification of relationships among variables through bi-variate and multivariate analysis. Tests of significance.
- Philosophy of qualitative research.
- Participant observation. Unstructured interviewing. Field observations. Case study strategy. Qualitative data analysis. Conversation analysis. Focus groups.
- Presentation of findings, writing-up of the thesis and dissemination of research work. Managing research projects: mobilizing resources, team building, time management, quality control on performance, confidentiality and ethical issues, progressing and expediting, managing costs and estimation, managing conditions of high uncertainty and difficulties in successful completion of research projects.
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Text/Ref Books
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Text Book:
- Kate L. Turabian: A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses and issertations. (Latest Edition)
- Jack P. Gibbs; Urban Research Methods. (Latest Edition)
Reference books (Authors, title, publisher & publication year):
- Harry Teitelbaum: How to write Thesis: A Guide to the Research Paper. (Latest Edition)
- William J. Goode and Paul K. Hatt; Methods in Social Research.(Latest Edition)
- James A. Black and Dean J. Champion; Methods and Issues in Social Research. (Latest Edition)
- John Goltung, Theory and Methods of Social Research. (Latest Edition)
- Eliott S.M. Gatner and Francisco; Research and Report Writing. (LatestEdition)
- Kumar, Ranjit, Research Methodology, Saga Publications, London, 2000
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Time Schedule
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Fall Semester 2015
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Faculty/Resource Person
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Dr. Malik Asghar Naeem
PhD, Hong kong
Discipline: Urban & Regional Planning
Specialty: Urban Planning
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