Integrating Community-based Research into a Senior Capstone Seminar: Lessons from a Mixed-method Study

Abstract

This article describes a senior capstone, Neighborhoods and Health, which used community-based research (CBR) as its primary pedagogy. Students in the course drew upon multiple research methods and forms of data to provide our partner, the Urban Farming Institute of Boston, with an array of research products in support of the revitalization of a historic...

Download this resource to see full details. Download this resource to see full details.

Details

Subject Area(s):

Capstone Courses

Resource Type(s):

Assignment

Class Level(s):

Any Level

Class Size(s):

Small

Usage Notes

The ASA journal Teaching Sociology (TS) and TRAILS: the Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology share a common mission to disseminate effective teaching strategies and promote scholarly teaching. This article citation is brought to you through a collaborative project in which Teaching Sociology resources are integrated into TRAILS to...

Learning Goals and Assessments

Learning Goal(s):

1. Understand the application of sociology with a community partner.
2. Use a variety of sociological methods to collect and present data.
3. Increase methods proficiency.

Goal Assessment(s):

1. Pretests and posttests
2. Journal reflections