UPCD 301: Introduction to Research Methods & Community Analysis

This course provides an introduction to social research as a tool to understand and develop interventions to address social, physical, and economic problems. Students develop analytic skills and apply them to identify problems, select action strategies and test best practices in community development. Students develop the analytic capabilities to select the appropriate research methods to study, represent, and understand communities. Students develop basic skills in designing and implementing appropriate community studies, and in organizing and interpreting findings and presenting them to multiple audiences.