This course advances student knowledge of research design and methods, emphasizing frameworks, strategies, and qualitative methods for community-engaged studies. In this course, students engage with alternative frameworks, including community based (participatory) research and citizen science, to build understandings about the continuum of the research process. Process elements include planning and design, implementation, evaluation, dissemination, and assessing policy implications, as they are applied in deeply collaborative action research settings. This course explores strengths, weaknesses, and challenges of different data gathering and analytic methods through exploration of prior studies, and considers how these research approaches intersect with social, cultural, and institutional practices and ethical standards. Students work in teams to develop proposals for a Graduate Qualifying Project that addresses the needs of an outside project partner. Recommended background: Admission to the CCA MS program, completion of social science research methods course (e.g., ID 2050 or equivalent), or permission of instructor.
IGS 505: Qualitative Methods for Community-Engaged Research
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