ADVANCED QUALITATIVE RESEARCH

Undergraduate

The purpose of this course is to help students gain a theoretical, practical and critical understanding of qualitative research methodology, and to teach skills for the execution of research projects based upon qualitative data. Qualitative research is research that focuses upon understanding, rather than predicting or controlling phenomena. Nine different paradigms of qualitative research methodology, their implications, and applications, are examined in this course. These paradigms are: data display, grounded theory, phenomenology, ethnography, psychobiography and historiography, psychoanalytic approaches, narrative psychology, hermeneutics and textual deconstruction, and social constructivism. Political and ethical issues are also highlighted in order to problematize and promote more critically informed inquiry. PREREQUISITES: PSY 1010, 1020 AND EITHER all three of PSY 2700, 2730, 2750 OR PSY 2780 and 2790 Lecture/Tutorial: Three hours a week