3 credits
Spring 2026 Lecture Upper Division
This course introduces the participants to graduate level research in health disparities and the various theoretical and analytical skills needed to be a good health disparities researcher. It will take the course participants through the axiological, ontological and epistemological questions that we are confronted within social scientific research. This course will walk the participants through the various research paradigms and the critical debates associated with it so that they can reflect and possibly make an informed choice about their own research priorities. Permission of department required.
Learning Outcomes1Develop students understanding of the fundamental assumptions underlying different approaches to health disparities research and in turn how these inform the field.
2Develop students' capacities to describe, and to compare and contrast, the prominent approaches used to understand Health Disparities.
3Encourage the student participants to critically evaluate different research and approaches to health disparities and comment on the suitability of these in advancing health disparities research.
4Learn to write for academic audiences.
Restrictions
made by Purdue students.