HSOC-366: Safe Agua: Research in Context

This course is a Humanities & Sciences co-requisite for the Safe Agua: Colombia project, designed to provide participating students with applied ethnographic research methods and fundamental social, economic, and political context for their fieldwork and design processes. Through a series of readings, activities, and discussions, students will gain a more comprehensive understanding of factors affecting water access and sanitation in the low-income settlements of Bogota, as well as the socio-political frameworks shaping water poverty in the Global South. Students will also develop a suite of ethical and reflective field research practices as part of their design process, and generate integrated visual, verbal, and written materials in response to their research experiences.