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What is the role of qualitative critical research when the need for social justice has never been greater? (p. 1) ask Denzin and Lincoln (2017). In this course, we will begin by reviewing systems of inquiry within research in general explore as a basis for our deep dive into the importance of qualitative critical inquiry. We will focus on the meaning and discourses around critical qualitative research by exploring four methodologies: counter-storytelling, PhotoVoice, Youth Participatory Action Research, and Portraiture. Guest scholars who specialize in such methods will describe their purpose and process with qualitative critical research. Students will reflect on readings, write an article critique, and collaboratively present on a methodology and conceptual framework. Students will leave this course able to speak the language of qualitative research in new, robust, and meaningful ways coupled with a better understanding of who they are as researchers and the possibilities of social transformation through qualitative design.