STS 7006

STS Research I: A Course for Second-Year PhD Students in the Field

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2024-2025.

The goal of this year-long course is to train students in the process of conducting research in STS, providing hands on experience and discussions of the research process. Students will plan and execute an appropriately scaled empirical research project in STS and complete a "second-year paper" by the end of the Spring semester. They will refine initial research concepts into more specific research questions; review literature relevant to their topic; identify data sources and collect data and materials; address research ethics and obtain IRB approval (if needed); manage the inevitable contingencies of research; and write and revise their second-year papers.

When Offered Multi-semester course: Fall.

Permission Note Enrollment limited to: second-year STS Ph.D. students.

Comments This is part of a multi-term course sequence with STS 7007. An R grade will be assigned at the end of STS 7006. The R grade will convert to a letter grade when a grade is assigned in STS 7007 .

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