Course Description
Qualitative research processes, conceptualization of research problems, research design, selection of appropriate methods of data collection, consideration of alternative data analysis strategies, interpretation of findings, and research writing. Research in marital and family therapy included.
Athena Title
QUALITATIVE METHODS
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in CHFD 8810
Prerequisite
Permission of department
Semester Course Offered
Offered spring
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
1. Students can identify and explain the range of issues, questions, and diverse orientations addressed by qualitative inquiry, particularly directed towards clinical issues. 2. Consider and appreciate epistemological issues of carrying out qualitative research, and the various assumptions underlying different approaches. 3. Develop knowledge and skills regarding: how to conceptualize a study; select a method or methods appropriate to the research questions; collect data; interviewing strategies; researcher's relationship to participants; transcribing strategies; analytical strategies; interpretation of findings; quality control; and presentation of study. 4. Reflect on your own assumptions and subjectivities in regard to qualitative inquiry. 5. Develop critical thinking skills necessary to conduct and evaluate qualitative inquiry. 6. Increase awareness of opportunities to carry out research and publish qualitative research in the social sciences. 7. Increase understanding towards ethical concerns of conducting and re-presenting qualitative studies. 8. Increase understanding of Institutional Review Board (IRB) policies in regards to Human Subjects.
Topical Outline
1. Introduction 2. Epistemological and Paradigmatic Foundations and Ethical Issues 3. Forms of Data, Topics and Designs 4. Developing Research Questions 5. Data Collection 6. Methods 7. Participants (who, why, how, when?) 8. Improvisation 9. Organizing Data 10. Interpretation and Analysis 11. Quality Control: Evaluation, Trustworthiness, and Ethics 12. Writing up Research 13. Feminism, Gender Studies and Postmodernism
Syllabus
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