Health Sciences Research

Catalog description

This course teaches critical thinking and writing skills by introducing students to research methods in health and medicine. The course covers human participant protections, research designs, instrumentation, quantitative and qualitative data analyses, and communication of study findings. Students are responsible for selecting a health problem of interest, gathering and critiquing current research, writing a literature review and developing a research proposal. Throughout the course, students will review research articles investigating health disparities and other social justice issues. This course fulfills the overlay requirement of a writing intensive course. Students are taught to write in the technical report format.