Section outline

  • NO Class Labor Day - Individual Meetings with your Primary Advisor this week

    Complete a draft of the student worksheet for the work plan before meeting with your advisor.

    Class content (no class this year - content will be covered in 1:1 meetings):

    This week’s priorities are (1) to assemble and read through your sources and (2) to identify a methodological strategy for your work. If you are conducting fieldwork, you will hopefully have already started and will continue to gather your data. Otherwise, you will identify the theoretical perspectives you will draw from and what you will use as evidence to make your argument.

    In-class learning goals and activities: 
    • Workshop methods and primary sources
    • Discuss access, permissions, consent
    • Activity: Draft schedule for collecting primary sources - specifics, populations, archives, etc. (solo); discuss feasibility and additional ideas in small groups
     
    Self-directed research and writing tasks:

    • Description of research methodology
    • Specific list of primary sources with as much collected primary data as possible (name of people to interview, documents or statistical to analyze, archives or photographs to view, etc)
    • Research methods statement with research schedule and list of primary sources due Fri 9/11
    • For students needing IRB review, full IRB documents due to primary advisor by Mon 9/14