Research Methods for Graduate Studies 1, 5 cr

This seminar is designed to provide the student with a number of ways to address the complexity of various kinds of social action via the qualitative research paradigm. Based on around a century of field based and empirically defensible discovery and analysis procedures, this seminar will enable students to gain an overview and appreciation for qualitative research in general and hands-on experience with several specific qualitative research approaches. These will provide the students with a means to embrace the complexity of meaning-making and social action. We will devote time to a number of qualitative discovery procedures and analyses that enable a view of authentic social activity. By the end of the course, students will have a greater appreciation of the complexity, richness and systematicity of meaning-making and will have number of discovery procedures and qualitative research methodologies to choose from when undertaking the investigation of complex social phenomena.