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Class Meeting Date	Topic	Reading	Assignment Due
September 1st	Introduction and Overview of the Course	Check out this website on research for organizing	Blog Post
September 8th	Terminology, Research Paradigms, Critical Traditions	Fine (2006) Bearing witness: Methods for researching oppression and resistance—A textbook for critical research Ponterotto (2005) Qualitative research in counseling psychology: A primer on research paradigms and philosophy of science Watch this video on research terminology simplified
September 15th	Approaches to Knowledge Building in Social Work	Kaushik & Walsh (2019) Pragmatism as a research paradigm and its implications for social work research	Blog Post
September 22nd	Ethics, Power & Privilege, Protection of Human Subjects	Held (2020) Research ethics in decolonizing research with Inuit communities in Nunavut: The challenge of translating knowledge into action Listen to this podcast on epistemic oppression with Kristie Dotson	CITI Training Certificate
September 29th	Who am I? Who am I Accountable to?	Chicago Beyond. (2018). Why am I always being researched? Harding (1995) “Strong objectivity”: A response to the new objectivity question Watch this video on positionally	Subjectivity Statement
October 6th	Identifying and Formulating a Problem Statement	Grewal et al. (2016) Literature search for research planning and identification of research problem Rittel& Webber (1973). Dilemmas in a general theory of planning
October 13th	Searching for Open Access Research	Ansolabehere et al. (2017) The moral dimension of open Check out this website Decolonizing Knowledge	Blog Post
October 20th	Writing a Review of the Relevant Literature	Lubke et al. (2017) Hacking the literature review: Opportunities and innovations to improve the research process Nakano & Muniz (2018) Writing the literature review for empirical papers Pautasso, M. (2013). Ten simple rules for writing a literature review
October 27th	Writing Workshop		Draft Problem Formulation
November 3rd	Anatomy of a Research Article	Check out this infograph
November 10th	Qualitative Research Methodologies and Study Designs	Petty et al. (2012) Ready for a paradigm shift? Part 2: Introducing qualitative research methodologies and methods Tracy & Hinrichs (2017) Big tent criteria for qualitative quality Check out QualPage, a blog about qualitative research	Research Article Summary & Critique
November 17th	Methods of Inquiry in Qualitative Research	Oltmann (2016) Qualitative interviews: A methodological discussion of the interviewer and respondent context Check out CASP's checklist for qualitative research
November 24th	Introduction to Quantitative Research and Experimental Study Designs		Blog Post
December 1st	Levels of Measurement in Quantitative Research	Watch this video on quantitative terminology
December 8th	World Cafe		Problem Formulation & Literature Review

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