Course overview
This course introduces students to the various traditions, methodologies, and methods that inform qualitative research. Qualitative research helps researchers access deep aspects of lived experience and can address some of the elusive why questions of social life. Qualitative research highlights the complexity and richness of social life, which is typically inaccessible to large-scale social surveys. Students will encounter a wide range of qualitative research methods and perspectives, for example, feminist perspectives, symbolic interactionism, ethnography, discourse analysis, and qualitative interviews. Students will have the opportunity to test out some of these methods and will also develop skills in qualitative research design.
Course learning outcomes
- Identify the strengths and limitations of qualitative research, and when it is especially valuable to engage in qualitative inquiry
- Discriminate between different qualitative methodologies and methods
- Conduct qualitative fieldwork and produce a qualitative research report
- Demonstrate the ability to align research questions with qualitative methods and methodologies and justify the appropriateness of this alignment
Availability
Class details
Adelaide City Campus East
Class number 30008
Section LE01
Size 90
Available 83
Class number 27608
Section WS01
Size 30
Available 30
Class number 27607
Section WS02
Size 30
Available 25
Class number 27610
Section WS03
Size 30
Available 29
Class number 27609
Section WS04
Size 30
Available 29
Class details
Adelaide City Campus East
Class number 59684
Section LE01
Size 120
Available 120
Class number 59000
Section WS01
Size 30
Available 30
Class number 58999
Section WS02
Size 30
Available 30
Class number 58998
Section WS03
Size 30
Available 30
Class number 58997
Section WS04
Size 30
Available 30
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