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GLOS 3105 is also offered in Fall 2024
GLOS 3105 is also offered in Spring 2024
GLOS 3105 is also offered in Fall 2023
GLOS 3105 is also offered in Spring 2023
GLOS 3105 is also offered in Spring 2022
Fall 2023 | GLOS 3105 Section 001: Exploring the World: The Practice of Interdisciplinary Research (33102)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Meets With:
GLOS 3105H Section 001
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Tue,
Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 225
- Enrollment Status:
Open (16 of 17 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This class introduces Global Studies students to some of the major disciplines and methods used to make knowledge about the social world. The course first addresses fascinating philosophical questions, such as how is knowledge a social product? How are knowing and understanding different? How might we think of ignorance, too, as something constructed? We then turn from theory to practice, and to the question, how can we frame our questions, and enact our research in humble and ethically principled ways? Students will respond to this task by designing collaborative research projects. They will first identify and define a real world issue; they will review different disciplines' methods for defining and approaching the issue, and then they will jointly create a collaborative research design. The course will help Global Studies students understand the interdisciplinary nature of the Global Studies major, and it will help them begin to think about the goals, interests, and methods of their senior projects.
- Class Description:
- This class introduces students to various ways (methods) that knowledge about the social world is produced at the university. That is, the course helps students learn how to research important social questions of their interest, in ethically principled and practical ways. Students will collectively choose a real-world issue to research together, review different methods and strategies to approach the issue, and then create a collaborative research design. The course will help Global Studies and Liberal Arts students to understand the value of thinking across majors (such as geography, political science, cultural studies), as we do in the Global Studies major, and help students develop the skills necessary for their senior capstone projects as well as for their careers beyond the university.
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- Students who need to fulfill methods requirements and anyone interested in developing the skills to conduct their own research about the world.
- Exam Format:
- no exams
- Class Format:
- Weekly reading assignments will be the basis of in-class discussion and presentations, as well as occasional short writing assignments. The main work is oriented around collective research projects and individual final papers.
- Workload:
- Weekly reading assignments will be the basis of in-class discussion and presentations, as well as occasional short writing assignments. The main work is oriented around collective research projects and individual final papers.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/33102/1239
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 11 April 2023
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