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PARADIGMS AND PROCESS IN ACADEMIC INQUIRY

INTER-LS 315
Course Description

Designed specifically for the research fellow, provides a structure for thinking about research that avoids reducing research to a single mode of thought and practice, and is thus inclusive of the range of approaches to research reflected inINTER-LS/​INTER-AG  250. Will address specific topics that relate to the day-to-day activities of doing research, and addresses issues of what does it mean to think like a researcher, to act like a researcher, to talk like a researcher?

Prerequisites

Consent of instructor

Satisfies

This course does not satisfy any prerequisites.

Credits

Not Reported

Offered

Not Reported

Grade Point Average
4

1.21% from Historical

Completion Rate
100%

0.48% from Historical

A Rate
100%

6.09% from Historical

Class Size
11

No change from Historical

Cumulative Grade Distribution

Instructors (2026 Summr)

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