Course Schedule

This course was designed with the support of an Open Pedagogy Fellowship at CUNY. All of the course materials are open access, meaning they are completely free and publicly accessible. The following steps will enable you to download an extension for your web browser (Chrome or Firefox only) to access some of the readings for this course (you may also want to use this to locate free articles to reference in your final research paper or website assignment):

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You can access the textbook for the course here.

Date	Readings	Course Content	Assignments Due
08/25	Chicago Beyond: Why am I always being researched?	Building community: Introductions, course overview, expectations, and resources Please explore this website by MSW students at Silberman	Blog post #1
09/01	Chapter 6 Ponterotto, (2005) Qualitative research in counseling psychology: A primer on research paradigms and philosophy of science	Terminology, research paradigms, and critical theory Listen to this podcast on Critical Race Theory in US politics
09/22	Chapter 1 Oswald et al., (2020). Disrupting hegemony in social work doctoral education and research: Using autoethnography to uncover possibilities for radical transformation.	Knowledge building in social work: What constitutes a science of social work? Read about the Grand Challenges of Social Work	Blog post #2
09/29	Chapter 3 Grewal et al. (2016) Literature search for research planning and identification of research problem	Identifying and formulating a problem statement Check out this guide to being a critical consumer of information Guest lecture with Hunter librarian Sarah Johnson Watch these videos and complete this survey
10/06	Chapter 4 Pautasso, (2013). Ten simple rules for writing a literature review	Literature review: How to collect, analyze, and write up a review of the relevant literature Watch this video about writing a literature review
10/13	Chapter 5	Ethics, power & privilege, protection of human subjects Listen to this podcast on epistemic oppression with Kristie Dotson	CITI training Access CITI training here
10/20	Nakano & Muniz (2018) Writing the literature review for empirical papers	Writing workshop
10/27	Chapter 8 Rittel & Webber (1973). Dilemmas in a general theory of planning	Crafting social work research questions and hypotheses Check out this blog post with some suggestions to craft research questions	Article critique This infograph is about the anatomy of a research article
11/03	Chapter 9 Cameron & Stinson (2019) Gender (mis)measurement: Guidelines for respecting gender diversity in psychological research	Levels of measurement in quantitative research Check out this information sheet on levels of measurement	Blog post #3
11/10	Chapter 10 Mirick et al., (2017). Understanding sampling and recruitment in social work dissertation research.	Sampling methods in quantitative and qualitative research Watch this video on sampling methods
11/17	Chapter 11 Fine et al., (2021). Critical participatory action research: Methods and praxis for intersectional knowledge production	Designing survey research in social work Read this survey check list for tips to create a survey	Draft term paper or website due for peer review process
11/24	Chapter 13 Tracy & Hinrichs (2017) Big tent criteria for qualitative quality	Qualitative methods: Interviews and focus groups Watch this video on qualitative interviews
12/01		Class presentations
12/08		Class presentations	Final term paper or website due 12/15

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