Students often encounter knowledge as a finished product made by other people, usually experts in a specific field, or even in the form of common sense knowledge handed down by older generations. How then are students supposed to learn to create new knowledge about the world--to become knowledge-producers themselves? This course aims to support students' ability for self-directed learning and methodical inquiry through an action research process. We will examine short case studies in which student-worker knowledge has radically challenged dominant understandings of the world, unpacking the knowledge-making processes underlying different forms of expertise, while providing support for students to develop their own action research projects to cut through a world of so-called post-truth.
Prereq: Level at least 2A.
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