HSOC-103: Intro to Research

This course will introduce students to the practice of research-an organized attention to the world around us-in academic, design, and artistic contexts. Our conversations will consider how practitioners in a range of scholarly and creative fields articulate original research questions; identify relevant sources; and employ a range of methods to gather and analyze data. The course will include introductions to the history of research and evolving understandings of objectivity and observation; archival, ethnographic, quantitative, and other methods; as well as research ethics and anti-racist/decolonial approaches. For their final project, students will develop a research proposal outlining a future project relevant to their interests.