This course focuses on change, particularly social change, with an emphasis on examining its characterization, explanation and perpetration. The objectives of the course are to deepen and broaden theoretical and empirical understanding of change, and to enhance capacity to pose and address analytic questions about change as well as critically considering the viability of analyses for suggesting policy adjustments or initiatives, or plans of intervention. The objectives will be achieved through readings, class discussions and presentations, and written work.
This course focuses on the development and application of conceptual and theoretical frameworks used for planning research agendas and projects centered on social change. The objectives of the course are to deepen and broaden theoretical and empirical understanding of change as applied to one's own research agenda and trajectory, and to enhance capacity to pose and address analytic questions about change, as well as critically considering the viability of analyses for suggesting policy adjustments or initiatives, or plans of intervention. This course also includes a significant professional development component as it relates to preparing to disseminate one's change-centered research agenda and projects for broader audiences.
The objectives will be achieved through readings, class discussions and presentations, and written work.
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