This course encourages students to explore how research can inform social justice and social change. Examining specific debates from the fields of feminist research, Indigenous methodologies, and critical race theory, students will gain new understandings in the various ways research can both reproduce and challenge operations of power and privilege. This course offers students the opportunity to engage in debates around these methodologies as they consider how to do research for social change.
As an application of this discussion, the course immerses students in research-based and experiential learning. It includes a workshop on the ethics of community interaction, discussions on research justice literature, and the writing of a review paper to prepare students for community engagement activities. Coursework involves planning and conducting community discussion meetings, as well as writing and presenting papers on their community engagement and learning outcomes, utilizing research justice literature and self-reflection as assignments.
- Teacher: Gulhanim Caliskan