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):
  1. Download and install the unpaywall extension in Chrome or Firefox
  2. Search for articles in google scholar using Chrome or Firefox
  3. You will see a green tab with a lock, which indicates that the unpaywall extension found a legal open-access version of this article

You can access the textbook for the course here. 

DateReadingsCourse ContentAssignments Due
08/25Chicago 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
09/01Chapter 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
09/22Chapter 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
09/29Chapter 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
10/06Chapter 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
10/13Chapter 5Ethics, power & privilege, protection of human subjects

Listen to this podcast on epistemic oppression with Kristie Dotson		CITI training

Access CITI training here
10/20Nakano & Muniz (2018) Writing the literature review for empirical papers Writing workshop
10/27Chapter 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
11/03Chapter 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
11/10Chapter 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
11/17Chapter 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
11/24Chapter 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
12/08Class presentationsFinal term paper or website due 12/15
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