RESEARCH METHODS|HISTORIC ENVIRONMENTS|RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES|ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY AND THEORY|C

The aim of this module is to develop high-level knowledge and skills in researching how to design for historic environments. This research may take place over...

Design Research Methods for Historic Environments (BARC0064)

The aim of this module is to develop high-level knowledge and skills in researching how to design for historic environments. This research may take place over a wide range of scales and forms, for example furniture, buildings, urban interventions or whole neighbourhoods. Students will be required to investigate and critique contemporary architectural solutions, urban conditions and social, economic, cultural and ecological practices in a wide range of cities around the world, and then learn how to use these findings to create innovative and challenging forms of architecture which reuse and enhance the built heritage. Students are expected to capitalise on all methods of investigation and representation available to them (physical models, digital fabrication, photography, drawings, computer models, renderings, animations, films, etc.) and not just concentrate on one or two forms of media. Students also need to allow for intuitive and spontaneous design-based reactions to the issues investigated.

The design-led investigations will include an overview of comparable conditions in other cities around the world, looking at various potential strategies to deal with the complex issues involved.

Module Content

A laboratory-based course designed as a practical introduction to biological anthropology, running in parallel with ANTH0008: Introduction to...

Methods and Techniques in Biological Anthropology (ANTH0007)

Module Content

A laboratory-based course designed as a practical introduction to biological anthropology, running in parallel with ANTH0008: Introduction to Biological Anthropology. The course introduces methods of data collection and handling, descriptive statistics, and hypothesis testing in biological anthropology. Subject areas include evolutionary theory, taxonomy, behavioural ecology, primate and hominin evolution, comparative anatomy, nutrition, demography, and resource use.

Learning Outcomes

Understand scientific methods used in biological anthropology and have improved scientific literacy
	Identify individuals of the major primate groups
	Record and analyse basic behavioural data
	Produce a scientific report identifying, analysing and critiquing data
	Be aware of the role of more complex statistical testing to provide predictions and models
	Gain familiarity with the morphology of the key fossil hominins, and methods used to explore our evolutionary history
Delivery Method

2 hours of lab-work per week.