May 02, 2024  
Academic Catalog 2022-2023 
    
Academic Catalog 2022-2023 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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HOD-883LR Advanced Research Methodologies: Liberatory Research

2 or 4 semester credits
This advanced studies course examines the emancipatory potential of research and praxis, particularly within an ever-changing globalized world. The course is deeply rooted in social justice, and it underscores liberatory research as an approach to understanding knowledge production, ways of knowing, questions of epistemology, and methodological inquiry. With a strong emphasis on social change and transformation, the course engages a range of critical, multi-disciplinary, conceptual and theoretical perspectives for research as praxis. Some of these perspectives include: Feminist theory, queer theory, theories of race and ethnicity, among others.
Pre-requisites: HOD-800 , HOD-881  and HOD-882  
Delivery Method: Online
Grading Default: Letter
Learning Outcome(s):
  • Understand the ways in which liberatory research challenges conventional ways of thinking about knowledge.
  • Apply liberatory research to global and local problems such as, systems of power.
  • Challenge taken-for-granted assumptions about theory, research, and praxis.



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