Building Knowledge in Social Work: Research Methodologies and Practices

3 cr · Undergraduate

Students in this course acquire knowledge and skills for critical social work research. Students will frame and articulate their research focus through engagement with research design including quantitative and qualitative research methods. Both Western and Indigenous epistemologies and methodologies will be honoured and discussed. These methods will be used to conduct a basic research project proposal to explore a social work issue, select the most appropriate social work research practice to study this issue, and outline how they will carry out this ethical research. Open to non-Social Work students with a minimum of 54 credit hours and with instructor permission.