ARTS 600s

ARTS 600 Knowledge Mobilzation to Serve Society (0.50) SEM	Course ID: 012851
The goal of knowledge transfer is to make publicly-funded research more useful to policy, practice, and the public. In this interdisciplinary course students learn how to gather, evaluate, synthesize and summarize scholarly knowledge in ways that meet the needs, timeframes, culture, and realities of stakeholders. Students will examine strategies and techniques used in a variety of fields to make research findings more useful and usable beyond the academy. Experts from the areas of policy, media, and practice will offer their perspectives on knowledge transfer and the need for increased research impact.

ARTS 601 Building Community-University Research Alliances (0.50) SEM	Course ID: 012969
This interdisciplinary course examines the impediments to, as well as those developments that facilitate, community-university partnerships from historic, cross-cultural, and empirical perspectives. Community is defined broadly to include local social service organizations, health practitioners, policy makers, and commercial enterprises. Students develop research alliances relevant to their areas of study, skills, and interests. Through the development of research alliances students learn how to facilitate the uptake of existing research to increase organizational capacity for sustainability and innovation.