(QUAL)(EDEC)EDMS 7500.
Action Research.
3 hours.
Oasis Title: ACTION RESEARCH.
Not open to students with credit in EDMS(EDEC) 8010.
Prerequisite: Permission of department.
Action research and participatory action research across diverse
contexts. The course includes a consideration of history and
definitions of action research and participatory action research,
and an analysis of their purposes, processes, and theoretical
foundations. Students will engage in practitioner-based research
strategies such as observations, interviewing, and document analysis.
Offered every year.
(QUAL)ERSH 7800.
Topics in Educational Research.
1-3 hours.
Repeatable for maximum 15 hours credit.
Oasis Title: TOPICS IN ED RSCH.
Special topics in educational research focusing on methodological applications. Topics include understanding standardized tests, policy issues in educational assessment, using large databases, computer application in educational assessment and data analysis, large scale school assessment programs.
Offered fall and spring semesters every year.
QUAL 8400.
Qualitative Research Traditions.
3 hours.
Oasis Title: QUAL RSCH TRADITION.
Not open to students with credit in ERSH 7400 or ERSH 8400.
Prerequisite: ERSH 4200/6200.
Foundations of qualitative design: history, philosophy, nature, types, examples, and assessment. Reading and evaluating reports of qualitative research in education and identifying methodological issues.
Offered fall, spring, and summer semesters every year.
QUAL 8400E.
Qualitative Research Traditions.
3 hours.
Oasis Title: QUAL RSCH TRADITION.
Not open to students with credit in ERSH 7400 or ERSH 8400 or QUAL 8400.
Prerequisite: ERSH 4200/6200.
Foundations of qualitative design: history, philosophy, nature,
types, examples, and assessment. Reading and evaluating reports
of qualitative research in education and identifying
methodological issues.
Offered fall, spring, and summer semesters every year.
QUAL 8410E.
Designing Qualitative Research.
3 hours.
Oasis Title: DESIGNING QUAL RSCH.
Not open to students with credit in ERSH 8410 or QUAL 8410.
Prerequisite: QUAL 8400.
Disciplinary origins and cross-disciplinary uses, variations,
applications, and evaluations of methods of collecting
qualitative data. Choice of methods in the overall construction
of qualitative designs, practice in selecting and collecting
qualitative data for educational research, and examination of
naturalistic data in the educational literature.
Offered fall, spring, and summer semesters every year.
QUAL 8410.
Designing Qualitative Research.
3 hours.
Oasis Title: DESIGNING QUAL RSCH.
Not open to students with credit in ERSH 8410.
Prerequisite: QUAL 8400.
Disciplinary origins and cross-disciplinary uses, variations, applications, and evaluations of methods of collecting qualitative data. Choice of methods in the overall construction of qualitative designs, practice in selecting and collecting qualitative data for educational research, and examination of naturalistic data in the educational literature.
Offered fall, spring, and summer semesters every year.
QUAL 8420.
Analyzing Qualitative Data.
3 hours.
Oasis Title: ANALYZING QUAL DATA.
Not open to students with credit in ERSH 8420.
Approaches to analysis in the design of qualitative research studies. Procedures are surveyed and compared from a range of social science and professional disciplines for use in studying educational problems and topics.
Offered fall, spring, and summer semesters every year.
QUAL 8420E.
Analyzing Qualitative Data.
3 hours.
Oasis Title: ANALYZING QUAL DATA.
Not open to students with credit in ERSH 8420 or QUAL 8420.
Approaches to analysis in the design of qualitative research
studies. Procedures are surveyed and compared from a range of
social science and professional disciplines for use in studying
educational problems and topics.
Offered fall, spring, and summer semesters every year.
QUAL 8510E.
Theories in Qualitative Design.
1-3 hours.
Oasis Title: THEORIE QUAL DESIGN.
Not open to students with credit in ERSH 8510 or QUAL 8510.
Theories in qualitative research design and conduct. Theories
commonly used in qualitative approaches to educational problems
and issues; sociocultural, psychosocial, critical, feminist,
and postmodern theories.
Offered spring semester every even-numbered year.
QUAL 8510.
Theories in Qualitative Design.
1-3 hours.
Oasis Title: THEORIE QUAL DESIGN.
Not open to students with credit in ERSH 8510.
Theories in qualitative research design and conduct. Theories commonly used in qualitative approaches to educational problems and issues; sociocultural, psychosocial, critical, feminist, and postmodern theories.
Offered spring semester every even-numbered year.
QUAL 8515.
Qualitative Program Evaluation: Theory and Practice.
3 hours.
Oasis Title: QUALITATIVE EVALUAT.
Prerequisite: QUAL 8400.
Examination of concepts and methods in the negotiation, design,
implementation, and report of qualitative program evaluations.
Integration of theory and practice through conducting an
evaluation for a selected program. Among topics considered are
responsive, naturalistic, critical, and culturally responsive
evaluation, working with diverse stakeholders, and evaluation in
a democracy.
Offered spring semester every odd-numbered year.
QUAL 8520.
Interviewing Research.
1-3 hours.
2-6 hours lab per week.
Oasis Title: INTERVIEWING RSCH.
Not open to students with credit in ERSH 8520.
Conceptual framework for interviewing, approaches associated with various disciplines and schools of inquiry, forms and structures interviewing takes, the criteria developed to assess interviews, and interviewing practice across a variety of situations. Recording, analyzing, and reporting interview data, ethical and relationship issues, and research on interviewing methods.
Offered fall semester every even-numbered year.
QUAL 8520E.
Interviewing Research.
1-3 hours.
Oasis Title: INTERVIEWING RSCH.
Not open to students with credit in ERSH 8520 or QUAL 8520.
Conceptual framework for interviewing, approaches associated
with various disciplines and schools of inquiry, forms and
structures interviewing takes, the criteria developed to assess
interviews, and interviewing practice across a variety of
situations. Recording, analyzing, and reporting interview data,
ethical and relationship issues, and research on interviewing
methods.
Offered fall semester every even-numbered year.
QUAL 8525E.
Narrative Analysis.
3 hours.
Oasis Title: NARRATIVE ANALYSIS.
Not open to students with credit in QUAL 8525.
Prerequisite: QUAL 8400.
Examination of the contemporary place of narratives in
qualitative research. Specifically, the history, prevalent
methodologies, philosophical perspectives, and presentation
techniques related to narratives will be examined.
Offered summer semester every even-numbered year.
QUAL 8525.
Narrative Analysis.
3 hours.
Oasis Title: NARRATIVE ANALYSIS.
Prerequisite: QUAL 8400.
Examination of the contemporary place of narratives in
qualitative research. Specifically, the history, prevalent
methodologies, philosophical perspectives, and presentation
techniques related to narratives will be examined.
Offered summer semester every even-numbered year.
QUAL 8530E.
Case Study Research.
1-3 hours.
Oasis Title: CASE STUDY RESEARCH.
Not open to students with credit in ERSH 8530 or QUAL 8530.
Case study as a research design. Topics are types of case
studies, defining the case, site and sample selection, data
collection methods, within-case and cross-case analysis, and
writing case reports.
Offered fall semester every odd-numbered year.
QUAL 8530.
Case Study Research.
1-3 hours.
2-6 hours lab per week.
Oasis Title: CASE STUDY RESEARCH.
Not open to students with credit in ERSH 8530.
Case study as a research design. Topics are types of case studies, defining the case, site and sample selection, data collection methods, within-case and cross-case analysis, and writing case reports.
Offered fall semester every odd-numbered year.
QUAL 8535.
Oral History Methods in Social Justice Movements.
3 hours.
Oasis Title: ORAL HIST METHODS.
Examination of concepts and methods in oral history within
the content areas of education, social justice, and civil
rights. Students will study techniques in collecting,
interpreting, and writing oral history. Students interested in
oral history, narrative research, ethnography, life history,
and interviewing will find this course of interest.
Offered every even-numbered year.
QUAL 8540E.
Participant Observation.
1-3 hours.
Oasis Title: PARTICIPANT OBSERV.
Not open to students with credit in ERSH 8540 or QUAL 8540.
Qualitative approaches to observation in education: participant
and nonparticipant observation and ethnographic, ethnological,
and field study. Choices of such approaches in qualitative
design, their development, application, and evaluation, are
compared and selected versions are practiced.
Offered fall semester every even-numbered year.
QUAL 8540.
Participant Observation.
1-3 hours.
2-6 hours lab per week.
Oasis Title: PARTICIPANT OBSERV.
Not open to students with credit in ERSH 8540.
Qualitative approaches to observation in education: participant and nonparticipant observation and ethnographic, ethnological, and field study. Choices of such approaches in qualitative design, their development, application, and evaluation, are compared and selected versions are practiced.
Offered fall semester every even-numbered year.
QUAL 8545.
Digital Technology and Qualitative Research.
3 hours.
Oasis Title: DIGI TECH QUAL RSCH.
Prerequisite or corequisite: QUAL 8400.
This course addresses the intersection of qualitative research
and digital technology. Through directed discussion, readings,
and class projects, participants will explore the relationships
between current technologies and the theory and methods of
research. Participants will use digital tools for data
collection, data analysis, and data presentations in a class
project.
Offered summer semester every year.
(QUAL)LLED 8550.
Writing Up Qualitative Research.
3 hours.
Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit.
Oasis Title: WRITING QUAL RSCH.
Not open to students with credit in ELAN 8550.
Prerequisite: ERSH 8410 or permission of department.
Theoretical, ethical, and practical issues involved in transforming qualitative data into a written research report. Students, both in dissertation and pre-dissertation, will write representations of data they have already collected.
Not offered on a regular basis.
QUAL(EDEC) 8555.
Interpretive Research with Children.
3 hours.
Oasis Title: INTER RES CHILD.
Prerequisite: QUAL 8400 or permission of department.
Methodological and ethical issues involved in conducting
interpretive research about and with children.
Offered spring semester every even-numbered year.
QUAL 8560.
Ethnomethodological and Conversation Analytic Studies.
3 hours.
Oasis Title: ETHNO CA STUDIES.
Not open to students with credit in ERSH 8560.
Prerequisite or corequisite: ERSH 8400 and ERSH 8410.
Ethnomethodological (EM) and conversation analytic (CA)
approaches to research. Other topics are philosophical
assumptions; a review of literature in EM and CA in different
disciplines; key scholars; scholarly debates; ‘pure’ and
‘applied’ CA; membership categorization analysis (MCA); and
applications to naturally occurring data and interview data.
Offered spring semester every odd-numbered year.
QUAL 8560E.
Ethnomethodological and Conversation Analytic Studies.
3 hours.
Oasis Title: ETHNO CA STUDIES.
Not open to students with credit in ERSH 8560 or QUAL 8560.
Prerequisite or corequisite: ERSH 8400 and ERSH 8410.
Ethnomethodological (EM) and conversation analytic (CA)
approaches to research. Other topics are philosophical
assumptions; a review of literature in EM and CA in different
disciplines; key scholars; scholarly debates; ‘pure’
and ‘applied’ CA; membership categorization analysis (MCA); and
applications to naturally occurring data and interview data.
Offered spring semester every odd-numbered year.
(QUAL)LLED 8565.
Theoretical Frameworks for Doctoral Studies in the Human Sciences.
3 hours.
Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit.
Oasis Title: THEO FRAMEWORK.
Not open to students with credit in ELAN 8560 or ELAN 8565.
Readings in major theoretical frameworks used in doctoral
studies and research, including critical, postmodernism,
feminism, Marxism, positivism, and pragmatism.
Offered every year.
(QUAL)LLED 8570.
The Postmodern Turn: Theories and Methods.
3 hours.
Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit.
Oasis Title: POSTMODERN TURN.
Not open to students with credit in ELAN 8570.
Readings in postmodern theory, including Michel Foucault,
Jacques Derrida, Jean Baudrillard, Jean-Francois Lyotard,
Judith Butler, Patti Lather, etc. Focus on language, truth, power,
knowledge, reason, and the subject.
Not offered on a regular basis.
QUAL(ERSH) 8575.
Mixed Methods Approaches to Research.
3 hours.
Oasis Title: MIXED METHODS.
Prerequisite: ERSH 4300/6300 and QUAL 8400.
An overview of mixed methods in evaluation and social science
research, focusing on the origins of mixed methods approaches,
paradigmatic issues, research designs, and data analysis.
Emphasis on practice features critiques of samples of empirical
work from various disciplines and domains of study.
Offered spring semester every year.
(QUAL)LLED 8580.
Postmodern Qualitative Research.
3 hours.
Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit.
Oasis Title: POMO QUAL RESEARCH.
Not open to students with credit in ELAN 8580.
Prerequisite: Permission of department and ERSH 8400.
Qualitative research methodology using postmodern analyses,
such as deconstruction, genealogy, archaeology, rhizoanalysis and
power/knowledge readings.
Not offered on a regular basis.
QUAL 8585.
Hermeneutics in Research.
3 hours.
Oasis Title: HERMENEUTICS.
Prerequisite: QUAL 8400.
Examination of Heidegger's influence on anthropological and
sociological research on human experience, poststructural
approaches to studying identity, and inquiry as critical
pedagogy.
Not offered on a regular basis.
(QUAL)ELAN 8590.
Arts-Based Inquiry in Diverse Learning Communities.
3 hours.
Oasis Title: ARTS-BASED INQUIRY.
Prerequisite: Permission of department.
Examination of techniques of arts-based scholarship to increase
the value, validity, and impact of qualitative research for
understanding culturally and linguistically diverse learning
communities. Students will practice poetic, theatrical, and
artistic data collection, analysis and representation. Students
will develop focused expertise, fostering a rigorous critical
community for arts-based scholarship.
Offered fall semester every odd-numbered year.
QUAL(ERSH) 8595.
Research Ethics in the Professional and Social Sciences.
3 hours.
Oasis Title: RESEARCH ETHICS.
Exploration of the ethical and moral dilemmas researchers have
encountered in conducting research in the social, professional,
and human sciences and the sources of ethical principles and
practices they have used in addressing these dilemmas.
Offered fall semester every even-numbered year.
QUAL 8595E.
Research Ethics in the Professional and Social Sciences.
3 hours.
Oasis Title: RESEARCH ETHICS.
Not open to students with credit in QUAL 8595.
Exploration of the ethical and moral dilemmas researchers have
encountered in conducting research in the social, professional,
and human sciences and the sources of ethical principles and
practices they have used in addressing these dilemmas.
Offered fall semester every even-numbered year.
(QUAL)ERSH 8700.
Practicum in Educational Research.
1-3 hours.
Repeatable for maximum 3 hours credit.
Oasis Title: PRACTICUM ED RSCH.
Prerequisite: ERSH 8320.
Supervised experiences in educational research focusing on the planning, implementation, analysis, and response to scientific inquiries.
Non-traditional format: Supervised experiences in the field of educational research.
Offered every year.
QUAL(LLED) 8750.
Qualitative Research Writing Workshop.
3 hours.
Repeatable for maximum 12 hours credit.
Oasis Title: QUAL RSCH WRITING.
Prerequisite: QUAL 8420.
Provides intensive support for graduate students who are writing
up qualitative research studies for professional journals,
theses, and/or dissertations. Explores a variety of models of
writing within qualitative research traditions across
disciplines. Supports writers through individual writing
conferences, structured writing time, and group feedback.
Non-traditional format: This is a six day intensive writing retreat. Each day students
write for 6 hours, confer with their peers and instructor for 1
hour, and participate in a 3-hour group seminar where they
discuss issues and read excerpts of their writing for group
feedback.
Offered summer semester every year.
QUAL 9400E.
Advanced Seminar in Qualitative Research.
3 hours.
Oasis Title: ADV SEM QUAL RES.
Not open to students with credit in QUAL 9400.
This seminar provides a scholarly environment for doctoral
students who are either approaching the completion of their
course work or working on qualitative dissertations to discuss
issues pertinent to their individual research agendas. Topics
include teaching qualitative research methods; writing
proposals; writing for publication; conference presentations;
and applying for positions.
Offered fall semester every year.
QUAL 9400.
Advanced Seminar in Qualitative Research.
3 hours.
Oasis Title: ADV SEM QUAL RES.
This seminar provides a scholarly environment for doctoral
students who are either approaching the completion of their
course work or working on qualitative dissertations to discuss
issues pertinent to their individual research agendas. Topics
include teaching qualitative research methods; writing proposals;
writing for publication; conference presentations; and applying
for positions.
Offered fall semester every year.
(QUAL)ERSH 9700.
Internship in Educational Research.
1-3 hours.
Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit.
Oasis Title: INTERN EDU RSCH.
Prerequisite: ERSH 8320.
Supervised experiences outside of the department in educational research; focusing on the planning, implementation, analysis, and reporting of scientific inquiries.
Non-traditional format: Supervised experiences in the field of educational research.
Offered every year.
(QUAL)ERSH 9800.
Issues in Qualitative and Quantitative Research.
1-3 hours.
Repeatable for maximum 12 hours credit.
2-6 hours lab per week.
Oasis Title: QUAL/QUANT RSCH.
Prerequisite: Permission of major.
Current issues in qualitative and quantitative research methods. Methodological, substantive, and theoretical literature in the areas of measurement, qualitative design, and quantitative data analysis.
Offered every year.