RM215

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Research Design: Method and Theory

Course Subject Code

RM

Course Number

215

Course Long Title

Research Design: Method and Theory

Status

Active

Division

Non-Divisional

Unit(s)

1

Schedule Type

Block Seminar

Instruction Mode

Traditional

Grade Modes

Letter Grades, S/CR/NC, Audit

Course Description

This course introduces students to research design, method, and theory across the humanities and social sciences. Students learn how to select a research topic or problem site, examine academic scholarship, gather data, and conduct critical analysis through the composition of an extended research project. Along the way, students come to understand the formal conventions of an academic research paper, while engaging critical writing and discourse across a range of disciplinary fields and practices, with emphases on topics pertaining to race, ethnicity, indigeneity, gender, sexuality, transnationalism, migration, globalization, and colonialism, among others.