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HRL 401 - Introduction to Action Research (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: HRL 200 
This course will introduce students to action research, a form of self-reflective systematic inquiry by practitioners on their own practice. The course reviews a few of the many approaches to action research, including ethnography, participatory action research, living theory, action science, and cooperative inquiry, as well as qualitative data analysis methodologies, including discourse analysis and participatory evaluation. The central argument is that action researchers operate with diverse epistemologies, but all promise improvements in the quality of social research, and emphasize a commitment to improving workplace relationships, organizational issues, and/or community or societal problems.