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PHD-CONTEXT1 Ph.d.- kontekst kurs 1

Full course name in English: 
PhD Context Course 1
Studiepoeng: 
7,5
Emnekode: 
PHD-CONTEXT1
Studienivå: 
Syklus 3
Undervisningssemester: 
2018 Høst
Eksamenssemester: 
2018 Høst
Undervisningsspråk: 
Engelsk
År: 
2017
Emneansvarlig
Tim Ainsworth Anstey
Forkunnskapskrav

Admitted to a PhD programme in a Norwegian or international institution 

Om emnet

Throughout the first two semesters of the PhD School we investigate the context in which research may be thought through and carried out in the history, theory and practice of architecture, design, urbanism, landscape and related fields. To this end, the course introduces a range of practical, conceptual, critical, methodological and epistemological lenses for interrogating and reflecting upon issues of collecting, analyzing, communicating and authoring research through both established and experimental means. The first part of the course (semester 1) is concerned with areas of common ground across AHO's areas of research expertise, while the second part of the course (semester 2) looks to the specific needs of the group to explore in depth particular areas of methodology, history, theory and practice. Following an introductory session to each theme, PhD Fellows work with a repeating series of directed reading and writing assignments, with individual responses being prepared for peer-oriented presentation, discussion and review during the next session. Core skill sets in gathering, reading, reviewing, analyzing, synthesizing and authoring research materials are continuously exercised in this manner, leading to the progressive building up of an individual “scrapbook of potentialities”, as well as a collectively-produced "augmented course bibliography" of reference material.

Course unit description

Context consists of understanding and defining research fields, both in order to understand a context in relation to the in the individual PhD project, and to understand this context in relation to institute-based research specialisms at AHO. The course investigates research fields in terms of characteristic methods and explores the implications of the interlocking of subject area, type of research question and research method.

Læringsutbytte

At the end of the course the student should be able to:

  • Define a research area through mapping existing research discourse and experimentation within a defined field of enquiry

  • Compare this field of enquiry to others in terms of its implications for research method

  • Explain and exemplify a selection of research methods within example cases.

Praktisk organisering og arbeidsmåter

Teaching occurs in bi-weekly two-day seminars. The vehicle for exploration is a reading seminar on texts selected in relation to the students study subjects, and through exercises in mapping research areas. This is combined with a series of workshops which relate student projects back to institute contexts, exploring how particular methods fit particular types of research question.

Deliverables

Presentations within seminars

Each seminar has a repeating pattern of deliverables to train core competences

  • gathering task

  • reading task

  • writing task

Obligatorisk arbeidskravPåkrevde arbeidskravOppmøte påkrevdKommentar
Oppmøte til undervisning Ikke påkrevdStudents are required to attend workshop seminars on every theme
Obligatoriske arbeidskrav:
Obligatorisk arbeidskrav:Oppmøte til undervisning
Påkrevde arbeidskrav:
Oppmøte påkrevd:Ikke påkrevd
Kommentar:Students are required to attend workshop seminars on every theme
VurderingsformGrupperingKarakterskalaKommentar
RapportIndividuellBestått / ikke beståttDeliver a bibliography of sources for research modes related to their own project, together with a written analysis of the particular relevance on one mode of enquiry investigated for their project, that critically analyses this literature.
Vurderinger:
Vurderingsform:Rapport
Gruppering:Individuell
Karakterskala:Bestått / ikke bestått
Kommentar:Deliver a bibliography of sources for research modes related to their own project, together with a written analysis of the particular relevance on one mode of enquiry investigated for their project, that critically analyses this literature.