Built-in Assessments:
HCOM MLO 2 (Research Skills)
Course Outcomes [parallel HCOM MLO2]: 1. Design, and effectively, appropriately, and ethically conduct, record, and archive original, life history interviews; (Relevant assignments: interviews, interview journals, transcripts, logs, subject indexes;, archive tapes; o.h. methods readings).
2. Design and carry out a collaborative research plan, addressing an issue of importance to the campus and the local community; design and apply research questions, hypothesis, assumptions, and appropriate research instruments and criteria. (Relevant assignments: team project proposals, hypotheses, assumptions, arguments; interview topics, release forms).
3. Conduct research that supports and advances community defined goals, through ethical participant observation, on site service, and reflection; conduct qualitative research in communities in culturally sensitive ways.(Relevant assignments: work at community sites; collective reflection exercises and journals; public presentations).
4. Integrate, critically evaluate, analyze, and interpret the primary life history data with appropriate secondary critical research on the intersection of higher education, institutional supports, cultural diversity, power relations, and life chances. (Relevant assignments: library and internet research, historical, cultural, sociological studies, and autobiographical reading; annotated bibliographies; critically annotated transcripts).
5. Critically evaluate, analyze, interpret, and annotate life histories, in terms of memory, ethics, self reflection, subject position, performance, and socio-historical context.(Relevant assignments: critically annotated transcripts).
6. Collaboratively synthesize overall findings to answer the initial research question; articulate policy recommendations; and present findings of team research in a public forum. (Relevant assignments: final team paper and public presentation).
