CDE 598 – Families Living (Un)Documented

Description: This is a 3-credit hour, designed for graduate and advanced undergraduate students, ASU Humanities Lab to explore the intersections of immigrant youth and children with mixed-status family well-being. In an in-person, medium-class-size format, students engage these issues using qualitative methods such as storytelling, oral history, and digital archives and child and family psychology methods. The goal of this lab is to create an interdisciplinary, student research-centered course that is team-taught and challenge-centric, driven by a series of intersectional inquiries concerning a current, pressing social challenge.

Fall 2024: 23 students

CDE 598/498 – Latinx Children, Youth, and Families

Description: This is a 3-credit hour, designed for graduate and advanced undergraduate students, introduction course to Latinx children, youth, and families. In an in-person, small-class-size format (i.e., < 10). The goal of the class is to foster a critical understanding of how culture, policies, and activism shapes and is shaped by our Latinx families in the United States, influencing our identity, development, and wellbeing.

Fall 2023: 6 students

FAS 598 – Theory and Methods in Diversity and Inclusion Science

Description: This is a 3-credit hour, graduate-level, advanced course on theory and methods on diversity and inclusion science. In an in-person, small-class-size format (i.e., < 20), students learn advanced conceptual and methodological tools related to structural racism and other systems of oppression, including critical race theory and intersectionality. The class consists of discussions of readings that the students selected based on an active learning and student participatory approach to the co-construction of the syllabus. Students are evaluated based on thought papers for each class, and a final original paper on theory, research, methods, and/or interventions to address these issues.

Fall 2021: 7 students

FAS 598 - Introduction to Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis

Description: This is a 3-credit hour, graduate-level, introduction course to systematic reviews and meta-analysis (SR&MA). In an in-person, small-class-size format (i.e., < 20), students learn basic conceptual, methodological, logistical, and statistical tools to conduct a SR&MA. The goal of the class is for students to be able to complete and pre-register a protocol following PRISMA guidelines. The class consists of class discussions one day, and hands-on lab exercises focused on specific tasks related to writing the protocol. We review basic elements to understand the history, reasons, possibilities, and limitations of SR&MA. Next, we discuss the importance of the research question, as well as inclusion and exclusion criteria. Students learn search strategies, creating a codebook, data extraction and coding, effect size coding and conversion, model selection, and testing heterogeneity, moderation, and publication bias. Students are evaluated based on thought and lab papers, and submission of a protocol. 

Fall 2019: 19 students

FAS 598 – Culture and Biology Interplay

Description: This is a 3-credit hour, graduate-level, introduction course to culture and biology interplay. In an in-person, small-class-size format (i.e., < 20), students learn basic theory and research on culture and biology interplay. The class consists of class discussions of landmark and recent readings. The goal of the class is for students to be able to understand the history, concepts, findings, and limitations of this field. We focus on the foundations of theory and research on culture and biology interplay, and focus on specific areas including animal culture, cultural neuroscience, cultural neurobiology, and cultural genomics. Students are evaluated based on thought papers, and submission of a final paper. 

Fall 2017: 6 students