SAA 580I - Functional Area in Student Aff

Credits: 3

The course introduces graduate students to qualitative research approaches and methods in the social sciences. The emphasis is on qualitative field-based research and its relevance/application for educators and practitioners, including professionals in higher education and student affairs. While especially concerned with the understanding, design, and critique or research that purports to address or redress social inequities, disempowerment, and injustice, the course will also familiarize students with mainstream research concepts, principles, and strategies as well as the actual nitty gritty of doing research, liberatory or otherwise. A central aspect of the course is the accent on critical self-reflection as practitioner-researchers speaking, reading, and writing from particular social locations. .