CPARCRTG - Community Based Participatory and Action Research

Graduate Certificate

College of Social & Behavioral Sciences

Graduate

The Graduate Certificate in Community-Based Participatory Action Research prepares you to participate in and lead collaborative research efforts in local communities. Rather than an outsider going into a community, assessing the needs they have and suggesting solutions, community-based participatory action research seeks input from the community itself. The goal is fostering collaboration (including students), engaging everyone in reflective practice and reciprocal learning, and ultimately building the capacity of the community to create the needed change. The graduate certificate program - which is a 12-credit, fully online, asynchronous certificate comprised of 7.5-week courses - builds the knowledge and skills to effectively foster this collaboration.

- Apply community based participatory and action frameworks to enhance evaluation research methods.
- Demonstrate competency in the assessment of approaches to building and negotiating partnerships in community based research.
- Demonstrate competency in culturally-appropriate, community-based participatory approaches to problem solving, monitoring and evaluation, and translation for program and policy change.