Designing Environmental Research

This seminar-style course is the second in the core sequence for first-year E-IPER PhD students. This course examines research design options for environmentally related research. Topics include the identification of critical elements within a broad range of research designs, how philosophies of knowledge relate to research objectives and design choices, development of knowledge claims, and evaluation of the types of research questions for which different designs are suited, emphasizing fit between objectives, design, methods, and argument. Development of individual research design proposals, including description and justification understandable to a non-specialist. Open to first-year E-IPER students only.