Course Schedule

This course was designed with the support of an Open Pedagogy Fellowship at CUNY. All of the course materials are open access, meaning they are completely free and publicly accessible. The following steps will enable you to download an extension for your web browser (Chrome or Firefox only) to access some additional articles behind high paywalls (this could be useful for your research paper or website assignment to access some free peer reviewed papers to reference):
  1. Download and install the unpaywall extension in Chrome or Firefox
  2. Search for articles in google scholar using Chrome or Firefox
  3. You will see a green tab with a lock, which indicates that the unpaywall extension found a legal open-access version of this article

 You can access the textbook for the course here. 

DateReadCourse ContentAssignments Due
8/30Building community: Introductions, course overview, expectations, and resources
Check out this website designed by a group of MSW students at Silberman
Blog post #1
9/13Ch6Terminology, research paradigms, & critical theory
Listen to this podcast on Critical Race Theory in US politics
9/20Ch1Knowledge building in social work: What constitutes a science of social work?
Read about the Grand Challenges of Social Work
Blog post #2
9/27Ch3Identifying and formulating a problem statement
Check out this guide to being a critical consumer of information

Guest lecture with Hunter librarian Sarah Johnson
Watch these videos and complete this survey
10/4Ch4Literature Review: How to collect, analyze, and write up a review of the relevant literature
Watch this video about writing a literature review
10/18Ch5Ethics, power & privilege, protection of Human Subjects
CITI training

Access CITI training here
10/25Nakano & Muniz (2018)Writing workshop
11/1Ch8Crafting social work research questions and hypotheses
Check out this blog post with some suggestions to craft research questions
11/8Ch9Levels of measurement in quantitative research
Check out this information sheet on levels of measurement
Article critique

This info-graph is about the anatomy of a research article
11/15Ch10Sampling methods in quantitative and qualitative research
Watch this video on sampling methods
Blog post #3
11/22Ch11Designing survey research in social work
Read this survey check list for tips to create a survey
11/29Ch13Qualitative methods: Interviews and focus groups
Watch this video on qualitative interviews
Draft term paper or website for peer review process
12/6No readingsClass presentationsFinal term paper or website due December 13th