Undergrad Research Training

Course Number: 82-198

These courses are designed to give eligible and interested students some hands-on research experience working on a faculty project or in a lab in ways that might stimulate and nurture the students' interest in doing more research. They are open to students who are Dietrich College, SHS, or BHA majors, double majors, and minors who will be second semester freshmen or sophomores during the semester they take the course.

FALL 2025 Section A: Designing a GenAI Research Study

Research undertaken in spring 2024 lent some insights into how first-year university students interact with GenAI. In fall 2025, students will be responsible for stage 3 of the research: for reviewing background research on study design, assessment, data collection, teaching and learning; conducting a literature review of how GenAI has been used to enhance reading comprehension and learning in general; Students will be required to complete the CITI research training before any work begins.

Interested students should send an email to Bonnie Youngs and include information about your interests in this project.

FALL 2025 Section B: Latin American Comics

The course will teach the basics of Comic Book Markup Language (CBML, a TEI-based XML vocabulary) for encoding and analyzing the structural, textual, visual, and bibliographic complexity of digitized comic books and related document.

Open to one or more students with at least low-intermediate level reading skills in Spanish.

Interested students should send an email to Felipe Gómez and include information about your interests in this project.

FALL 2025 Section C: Promoting Equity in Mental Health through Language Access for Immigrants

Mental health services rely on language as the principal medium of diagnosis and treatment; patient-provider conversational alignment is consequential for immigrant health and wellbeing. Our project investigates multiple and specific facets of language assistance to inform best-practice guidelines and policy surrounding language access and interpreter services.

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Units: VAR
Prerequisite(s): None