{"id":4062,"date":"2024-10-24T13:56:15","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T20:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.royalroads.ca\/mais\/?page_id=4062"},"modified":"2025-06-20T14:38:55","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T21:38:55","slug":"ma-in-interdisciplinary-studies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/commons.royalroads.ca\/mais\/program-source\/ma-in-interdisciplinary-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"MA in Interdisciplinary Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Advanced<\/a>Interdisciplinary<\/a>MA in Interdisciplinary Studies<\/a>Online<\/a>Stand-Alone Course<\/a><\/div>\n
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Introduces students to Indigenous ways of knowing in a global context by exploring Indigenous worldviews, identities, places and experiences, including colonialism and contemporary challenges. Outlines some key limitations to understanding Indigenous epistemologies, and privileges a decolonial approach that actively seeks to improve respectful relations with Indigenous peoples. Requires students to demonstrate graduate-level skills in reading, writing, and critical analysis.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\r\n \r\n\t\tINDS525: 2SLGBTQI+ Global Issues and Community Engagement\t<\/a>\r\n\t<\/i><\/span><\/div>\r\n
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Advanced<\/a>Interdisciplinary<\/a>MA in Interdisciplinary Studies<\/a>Online<\/a>Stand-Alone Course<\/a><\/div>\n
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Introduces students to history and current issues affecting 2SLGBTQI+ individuals and their communities with particular attention to seniors, youth, cultural and linguistic minority groups. Includes discussion of issues affecting lesbian, gay, bisexual, agender, transgender, non-binary, queer and Two-Spirit individuals and communities. Examines ways of creating welcoming and inclusive organizations, public services, and communities and approaches 2SLGBTQI+ issues from human rights and cultural identity perspectives.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Advanced<\/a>Interdisciplinary<\/a>MA in Interdisciplinary Studies<\/a>New<\/a>Online<\/a>Stand-Alone Course<\/a><\/div>\n
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This course provides an introduction to Indigenous research methods within an interdisciplinary context. It highlights relational, land-based, and interculturally informed approaches to knowledge creation, translation, and mobilization. It examines how research is shaped by positionality, power, history, and place.
Drawing on emerging work in Indigenous knowledge and research methodologies, the course situates research as an ongoing, relational process grounded in community accountability, application, and impact. Students engage with ethical and creative application of research through multimodal and practice-based methods, including storytelling, visual and media-based research, and community-engaged scholarship, while considering how research can be meaningfully applied and shared across diverse contexts.
*Course pending formal approval by the Curriculum Committee.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Illustrates why misinformation is a particularly wicked problem at this moment in history and helps to situate current misinformation trends within the long history of propaganda, fake news, and information operations. Provides students with strategies to address misinformation in their own lives and communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From COVID-19 to the conspiracy theories like QAnon, misinformation is everywhere. This course will help you to understand the problem of misinformation and begin to think about how to combat it. First, you will be introduced to definitions of misinformation and fake news. We\u2019ll investigate misinformation as part of a long history of propaganda, fake news, and information operations, all the way up to the social media fueled misinformation tsunami of our current media environment. This course looks at misinformation from many angles. We\u2019ll consider the ways that influence matters for the spread of misinformation; we\u2019ll look at the role of media and key influencers in spreading misinformation and how social media accelerates the reach and speed of misinformation. Finally, the course will teach you about the individual drivers of misinformation sharing and how to combat them: how to assess the quality of different messages in personal and professional contexts and how to speak with others who are sharing misinformation. INDS545 teaches you strategies to address misinformation in your own personal and professional lives and your communities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Advanced<\/a>Interdisciplinary<\/a>MA in Interdisciplinary Studies<\/a>New<\/a>Online<\/a>Stand-Alone Course<\/a><\/div>\n
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The objective of the course is to engages students in the study of timely, socially relevant topic`s from inter-, multi-, and transdisciplinary perspectives. Provides students with insights into emerging topics offered by scholars with topic-specific expertise. Course themes will focus on broad and\/or complex issues that draw on a variety of disciplines in an integrated manner. Students learn through scholarship and research, discussion, and an applied project as they explore emerging areas of expertise. Course themes may be related to culture, society, technology, economy, governance, and the environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Topic: Surveys, Interviews, and Focus Groups<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Offered Oct 12 till Dec 19, 2027. Instructed by St\u00e9phanie Vieille<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

This course offers master\u2019s students deeper, practical guidance on collecting data from human subjects. It focuses specifically on three key methods: surveys, interviews, and focus groups. Students will gain applied skills in designing and conducting these methods, from crafting effective survey questions to facilitating interviews and moderating focus groups. Each module provides clear, step-by-step instruction, ethical considerations, and practical tools to support research planning and execution. By the end of the course, students will be well-equipped to gather qualitative and quantitative data confidently and rigorously\u2014an essential step in conducting meaningful, human-centered research.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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