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Making the Undergraduate Classroom into a Policy Think Tank: Reflections from a Field Methods Class
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Public Policy

How to Cite

Broughton, Chad. 2011. “Making the Undergraduate Classroom into a Policy Think Tank: Reflections from a Field Methods Class”. TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology, January. Washington DC: American Sociological Association. https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/making-the-undergraduate-classroom-into-a-policy.

Abstract

This article examines the opportunities and limitations presented by organizing an undergraduate field research methods class as a policy think tank working for a government client. Organized as such, the course had both the learning objectives of a traditional undergraduate methods class and the corporate objectives of a policy think tank (i.e., to...

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Subject Area(s):
Research Methods
Resource Type(s):
Assignment
Class Level(s):
Any Level
Class Size(s):
Large

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