Advanced Studies in Participatory Action Research   [Archived Catalog]
2011-2012 PO Academic Catalog and Student Handbook
   

HD 582 - Advanced Studies in Participatory Action Research


3 credits
This is a methods course designed to give students the skills to create a project directed at actual social change. One of the assumptions in such a course is that actual change in an organization or agency or school can become a model that can be replicated in other organizations and even serve as a model for larger change at the level of society itself. Students will evaluate pre/post assessment techniques, collaborative decision-making skills, how to build community through intercultural storytelling, how to make budgets, and how to design and implement long term strategies. By the end of the course, each student will have designed an implementation plan (with timelines) and a grant proposal to help carry out that initiative.