COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course will help students think more deeply about their research design and process, and to structure both more effectively. With a focus on qualitative research methods, we will address how to craft a research question, match the question with the methods that best help answer that question, collect data using those methods and finally, marshal that data to draw conclusions. As a follow-up course to Qualitative Research Methods, this course will focus primarily on one specific approach to qualitative research: the ethnographic.
The course will help students understand the epistemological stances and research questions for which an ethnographic approach is best suited, as well the various ways in which this approach may be deployed (single site, multi-sited, relational comparison etc.). We will cover in detail the different methods of data collection associated with an ethnographic approach, particularly observation and interviews. We will also consider the advantages and costs of the ethnographic approach (relative to other approaches and methods), as well as the ethical concerns associated with research done using this approach.
By the end of the course, students will have built a mini research project from scratch, crafting a research question, identifying the appropriate methods to gather and analyse data to answer that question, the ethical concerns associated with their data collection and analysis, and finally, writing up their research.
Advanced Qualitative Methods (2022)
Advanced Qualitative Methods (2021)
Advanced Qualitative Methods(2020)
Advanced Qualitative Methods(2019)
Advanced Qualitative Methods(2018)
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