Applied Qualitative Methods

  • NINT 5271 - Applied Qualitative Methods (Spring 2008)

Section A/CRN 6793
Alberto Minujin
Monday 6.00pm - 7.50pm

Applied Qualitative Methods: Community Mobilization - Participatory Approaches for Preventing Sexual Violence

 

In partnership with the New York City Alliance Against Sexual Assault - Debi Fry, Chris St. John, Tami Pollak and Monica Paz

This course addresses community-based participatory approaches that are being used widely in international development, human-rights, public health and the social justice fields. These tools provide the flexibility to allow for research or as tools for community mobilization around a specific issue. This course will take you out of the classroom into a real-time, citywide project to engage communities in planning sexual violence prevention. Specifically, you will be working with all eighteen of the city’s rape crisis programs to help them think through these issues as they embark on a citywide demonstration project to prevent sexual violence in three to five communities in New York City.

You will be trained in conducting, analyzing and teaching community readiness for prevention assessments, oppression mapping, community asset mapping, community mobilization and other community-based participatory tools. Learning these skills will serve you well in any future work both domestically and internationally to address social justice issues. Additional skills you will learn include developing train the trainer’s guides and teaching participatory methods to community groups. Classroom instruction will include several guest lectures from leaders in the field conducting this type of work and using these tools and approaches. Though the practical experience in this course will be domestic, students will be exposed to leaders in the international field who are utilizing these tools for a variety of social justice issues and also those working to end gender-based violence. In addition to a final paper, the culmination of your skills learned through this course will be utilized in a hands-on full-day workshop with community members