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Dec 04, 2024
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HOD-881 Qualitative Research Methods4 semester credits
Students develop and demonstrate an understanding of the strategies for qualitative inquiry, including case study, ethnography, phenomenology, narrative, grounded theory, and critical genres, among others. Students study methodological topics, including the researcher’s stance, sampling, data collection, coding, thematic analysis, and procedures for assessing the trustworthiness of qualitative data, interpretation, and reporting. Students explore the range of qualitative approaches in application to their research interest, development of a research question, and creation of a qualitative, action research, or mixed methods research proposal.
Pre-requisites: HOD-800
Delivery Method: Online
Grading Default: Letter
Learning Outcome(s):
- Gain familiarity with the primary characteristics of the range of qualitative approaches representing how each approach informs research design, data collection, and analysis.
- Critically analyze published research studies identifying how the selected qualitative method is reflected in the research question(s), research design, data collection and analysis, and representation of findings.
- Evaluate the trustworthiness of qualitative research noting how the study’s findings are credible, transferable, confirmable, and dependable.
- Apply a qualitative research method to the design of one’s research generating possible research questions and developing a qualitative research proposal.
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