The seminar’s overall goal is to help students think critically about research methodology and be better-informed consumers of scientific findings as they bear on issues of practice and policy in the context of MBE. Five methodological domains will be addressed in the course: Clinical/educational, Experimental, Neuroimaging, Qualitative, and Computational.

The course will consist of three parts: 1) Monthly lectures by prominent researchers who utilize these methods in their research;  2) Monthly deeper-dive lectures and class-discussions to address the challenges and...