AP/CCY 4999 6.00

Honours Research Project

This course builds on the theoretical foundations learned in CCY 3999. In order to take this course you MUST have completed the prerequisite CCY 3999 as you will draw heavily on your previous course materials to complete CCY 4999. CCY 4999 is a project-focused course. You will be expected to complete a comprehensive research project. You will focus on child-centered research approaches to gather and analyze data. The course facilitates an opportunity for you to reflect on the challenges and benefits of engaging in child-centered research. Students begin the course by applying for the York University Human Participants Ethics protocol based on the research project they designed in CCY 3999. You will be expected to successfully complete a formal ethics board application drawing on child-centered ethics that accounts for the particularities associated with research with children. Once your ethics application has been approved, you will be responsible for recruiting participants, obtaining informed consent from all research participants, conducting research (utilizing applied research method skills developed in CCY 3999), analyzing research findings, creating a final research report, and disseminating research findings in a formal setting (poster presentation at York University).