This module begins with a one-week immersive field class in a European city focused on methodological experimentation in social research. It builds on aspects...

Overseas Field Class (coursework based) (GEOG0045)

This module begins with a one-week immersive field class in a European city focused on methodological experimentation in social research. It builds on aspects of the second-year courses ‘Methods in Human Geography’ and ‘Urban Geography’. The field class starts by introducing and experimenting with a range of techniques for attending to the social life of cities. These include note taking, observation, participation, photography, and video recording. After returning to UCL, we will then work together with you to explore how the research material that we have gathered can be analysed and drawn upon to develop original and valuable social scientific accounts of everyday life in cities. This culminates in a series of ‘web essays’ that use our field materials to explore a specific aspect of social life in the city that we visited together. The fundamental ambition of this course is to build our skills in responding to the importance of things that might easily go unnoticed.

Students will leave this course with skills in:

Team working and creative research design
	The comparative evaluation of social research methods
	Project management and interdisciplinary reviewing

The dissertation provides the opportunity for students to undertake independent research and writing to complete a stand-alone project based on their...

Issues in Modern Culture: Dissertation (ENGL0074)

The dissertation provides the opportunity for students to undertake independent research and writing to complete a stand-alone project based on their individual scholarly interests. You will develop ideas for a dissertation topic in the spring term and submit an outline description of your proposal early in the summer term.

You are assigned a supervisor who aligns most closely with their research interests and will discuss the proposed topic in a half-hour viva with your primary and secondary supervisors, who will pass the title as acceptable or suggest revisions. Two further 45-minute meetings with your primary supervisor take place over the summer before submitting the dissertation (12,000 words) at the end of August.