PPOL-G 781 - Practicum in Community-Based Research II

3 Credit(s)

Description:
This 2-semester elective course provides graduate students with hands-on, apprenticeship training in conducting research in collaboration with community-based organizations. Students will work with one or more community organizations to define a research project that supports the work of the group as well as contributes to broader knowledge. The course serves as an advanced methods class in participatory and qualitative research. Attention will be paid to how to build collaborative relationships with participants in the organizing group and to the ethics of action research. The course will also provide apprenticeship training in qualitative interviewing and participant observation as research methods. Students will have the opportunity to learn how to develop and conduct a research project from beginning to end.

Enrollment Requirements:
PPOL-G 780

000289:1