This course engages students in critical learning and practicing techniques for designing research, collecting information, and analyzing data qualitatively, ethically, and scientifically. Students will complete ethics training and develop informed consent forms. Students in this course will complete a scaffolded approach-based qualitative group research project, including a literature review, qualitative research question development, and data collection using ethnographic fieldwork, participant observation, semi-structured interviews, focus groups, and mixed-method approaches. In this course, students learn how to use qualitative research methods (such as text analysis, content analysis, phenomenological analysis, narrative analysis, conversation analysis, and grounded theory) in the examination of interdisciplinary cultural, social, and behavioral topics in context. For comparative purposes, the complementary relationship between qualitative (non-numerical) and quantitative (numerical) research methods will be considered, with a sustained emphasis on assessing the strengths and weaknesses of various qualitative research methods.

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Approved for Data Intensive Course Designation starting Spring 2025.