SOC 351 Addressing Injustice: Research Methods

This course is an introduction to the methods that social scientists use to advance social change in an unjust world. Social science methods, which include things like interviews, observation, and focus groups, can serve as tools for identifying unequal social patterns, raising awareness about unfair treatment, evaluating policies or programs, or informing strategies we use to take action. The methods we discuss in this class are those that involve working with human participants and are the most commonly used in the work of nonprofit or government research studies. Prerequisites: minimum grade of C- in SOC 121, SOC 131, SOC 203, SOC 204, or SOC 251. Liberal Arts Core/University Requirements Designation: SS-2, DSINQ. (3)