This course introduces students to research design, method, and theory across the humanities and social sciences. Students learn how to select a research topic or problem site, examine academic scholarship, gather data, and conduct critical analysis through the composition of an extended research project. Along the way, students come to understand the formal conventions of an academic research paper, while engaging critical writing and discourse across a range of disciplinary fields and practices, with emphases on topics pertaining to race, ethnicity, indigeneity, gender, sexuality, transnationalism, migration, globalization, and colonialism, among others.

1 unit — Tabares

Offerings

Term	Block	Title	Instructor	Location	Student Limit/Available	Updated
Fall 2024	Block 3	Research Design: Method and Theory	Leland Tabares	Interdisciplinary House LowerClass	25 / 23	07/20/2025
Fall 2025	Block 4	Research Design: Method and	Leland Tabares	TBA	25 / 23	07/20/2025