SocW 506 Advanced Social Welfare Research and Evaluation

Instructors for Winter 2008:

• Anne Nicoll*
• Andrea Doyle*

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course builds on and reinforces the knowledge and skills you developed in your undergraduate social research methods course. Designed to strengthen knowledge and skills related to practice-based research, this course considers issues of problem definition, literature review, measurement selection for diverse populations, and optionally quantitative data analysis.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

1. To learn to critically assess social science research from ethical, multicultural, and social justice perspectives.
2. To identify the potential limitations of research methods and examine critically conclusions drawn from data in the practice setting and from the research literature.
3. To build on students’ existing knowledge base to expand their capabilities to conduct research.
4. To identify ways in which social welfare research can perpetuate or counter oppression against vulnerable populations, including but not limited to people experiencing discrimination based on race, ethnicity, color, sex, sexual orientation, age social class, and physical or mental ability.

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