Explore and apply modes of thinking used in the analysis of qualitative data. Students discuss analytic strategies and approaches to interpreting and representing qualitative data, as well as considerations around argumentation, representation, non-representation, interpretation, and writing in research studies. Students should bring substantive data related to a research problem.
Athena Title
Analyzing Qualitative Data
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in QUAL 8420E
Prerequisite
(QUAL 8400 or QUAL 8400E) and (QUAL 8410 or QUAL 8410E)
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall and spring
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student learning Outcomes
Students will be able to produce a data inventory that includes research questions and data appropriate for a qualitative or mixed methods research design.
Students will be able to explain how analysis is informed by theory.
Students will be able to provide a rationale for data selection and generation, research design, theory, and analysis.
Students will be able to apply a range of analytic approaches to interpret qualitative data.
Students will be able to implement and present a qualitative analysis in relation to their own research with an appropriate conceptual, theoretical and empirical framework.
Students will be able to reflect on ethical issues as these relate to different analytical approaches.
Topical Outline
1. From theory to theorizing
2. Reflexivity, positionality, & memoing
3. Analytical reasoning
4. Coding, categorical thinking and critiques
5. Data visualization
6. Narrative thinking and counter narratives
7. Discursive approaches to analysis and dialectical thinking
8. Poetical thinking and artful approaches
9. Diffractive thinking: rhizoanalysis & the posts
