Research Methodology I

Code: ARQ10036D

6 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours

Scientific Area: Architecture

Teaching languages: Portuguese, English, Spanish, Italian

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English, Spanish, Italian

Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Sustainable Development Goals

Educação de qualidade - Assegurar a educação inclusiva, e equitativa e de qualidade, e promover oportunidades de aprendizagem ao longo da vida para todos.

Learning Goals

This curricular unit has the main objective of providing students with the tools - both in the general area of scientific research and specifically in the field of Architecture - to enable them to develop management skills, organization, development and presentation of an advanced research work in Architecture. At the end of the course, students should acquire the following skills:
- Know how to define a research topic, as well as a study object
- Know how to define the state of the art
- Know how to use the tools of research effectively
- Writing a scientific article

This curricular unit will have the following syllabus:
- Formulation of the doctoral thesis,
- Project definition, theoretical text, critical reflection, or exhibition curatorship as a research project in Architecture.
- Strategies for the enunciation of a research topic and a study object
- Definition of state of the art
- General methodologies of scientific research and specific of the research in Architecture
- General methodologies of scientific writing and specific of the writing about architecture

Teaching Methods

Theoretical sessions, with presentation of case studies; discussions with students. Method of assessment: scientific paper, assessed in terms of the employment of knowledge acquired in the course.