SW 7520 - Advanced Research and Grantwriting

This course focuses on deepening students’ research skills with respect to developing funded research proposals. Students will develop a conceptual framework or logic model that explicates the biopsychosocial mechanisms and social-environmental factors involved in a specific need, problem, or condition to be studied. Students will learn to develop conceptual frameworks and select research methods appropriate to addressing their research aims, including identification of appropriate research designs and analytic strategies. During the course, students will develop an exploratory/developmental research grant (such as NIH R21) proposal. Each section of this course may have a variable focus, i.e. intervention research, secondary data analysis. Students should complete one year of Graduate Statistic courses.