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Course description

This course introduces students to the foundations, tools, and techniques of social research. It does this by embedding questions of method into a broad framework of research design and analysis so that research is approached as a holistic enterprise in which theory, method and analysis are interrelated. Rather than simply offering a suite of different qualitative and quantitative research methods for students to trial, this course takes as its starting point the kinds of questions researchers pose about the social world and the various methodologies and methods that inform these questions. It also encourages students to be critical about their research practice and to consider the ways that research has supported the project of settler colonialism in its treatment of Indigenous peoples and communities. Students will be introduced to Indigenous perspectives on research, not only as subjects of research by non-Indigenous researchers, but as skilled researchers with their own ways of knowing, being and doing. The course also exposes students to the affordances of Generative AI in research and equips them with the skills to become ethical and critical users of GenAI across the research process. On completion of this course, students will be skilled in the art of reflexive, ethical and methodologically rigorous social research. 

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