Description: Seminar, three hours. Requisite: course 201A. Research methods and techniques speak to manner of collecting data and carrying out investigations. Research methodologies are groupings of procedures and practices used to illuminate and organize data and phenomena. Exploration of range of research methodologies prominent in Black/Africana studies. Students engage uses of archival research, textual analysis, oral history sources, sound analysis, digital media studies, and quantitative and qualitative approaches to data collection and interpretation. Instructor operates primarily as coordinator, arranging guest presentations and recorded lectures by departmental faculty. Letter grading.

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