Qualitative Research Methods

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This class provides students with an introduction to qualitative research methods. While we will center our attention on questions, problems, and issues related to the field of global development, the class will also be relevant for students from other fields. In class lectures, discussions, and assignments, we will learn about, draw from, and interweave frameworks and tools from a wide variety of fields. In doing so we will explore the challenges and benefits of both multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary research. Questions of ethics, responsibility, and relationality will be taken up throughout the class, including our obligation to reject extractive colonial methods and ways of knowing. On this theme, we will explore theorists and practitioners of publicly engaged, participatory, feminist, indigenous, emancipatory, and action-oriented research.