Interdisciplinary Research Methods

This course is designed to help doctoral students solve the research problems that characterize a variety of disciplines. After being exposed to several approaches, students will be required to build connections between a problem, the methodologies which address it, the data generated by the methodologies, and the interpretation of results. Research designs will be approached from an interdisciplinary perspective. Students will be directed to analyze and report on the quantitative and qualitative data typically encountered in interdisciplinary research efforts and to design interdisciplinary research. cr 3