Courses:

Course Info

• Course Number / Code:
• 11.233 (Fall 2005) 
• Course Title:
• Crafting Research Questions and Qualitative Methodology 
• Course Level:
• Graduate 
• Offered by :
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  Massachusetts, United States  
• Department:
• Urban Studies and Planning 
• Course Instructor(s):
• Prof. Judith Tendler
  
  Teaching Assistant:
  Salo Coslovsky 
• Course Introduction:
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  11.233 Crafting Research Questions and Qualitative Methodology
  
  
  
  

  Fall 2005

  
  
  

  
  
  

  Course Highlights

  
  
  

  This course features a complete set of required and optional readings as well as the major course assignments, including brief instructions on certain readings aimed at helping prepare for class discussions.

  
  
  

  Course Description

  
  
  

  This course covers approaches to research and evaluation in the planning field, for those preparing to write 1st-year doctoral and other research papers. Topics include narrowing down research interests, using quantitative and qualitative techniques complementarily, and interviewing and other fieldwork challenges. The course uses a seminar-type format in which readings, class discussions, and assignments are built around (1) generic themes that run across the research interests and paper topics of students in the class, and (2) lessons about methodology to be learned from the case comparison studies assigned.