CHID 496C: Minority Languages and Digital Media

Focus Groups https://chid.washington.edu/focus-groups

What Is a Focus Group?

CHID Focus Groups are 2-credit classes offered under the course number CHID 496 and are graded on a credit/no credit basis. Unlike many other classes, which use an education framework of instruction by an expert (generally a professor), Focus Groups rely on peer learning within a facilitated, discussion-based classroom. They allow students with common interests to create a space to discuss topics which may not be covered elsewhere in the UW undergraduate curricula.

Focus Groups are not spaces for students to promote one particular point of view. While students can adopt one idea or concept, this topic should be explored from multiple vantage points. Focus Groups should not depart from CHID’s guiding philosophy that “the questions are the content;” they are about critical scrutiny, not about ideological imposition.