QUALITATIVE COMMUNICATION RESEARCH METHODS

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2025 Learning Outcomes: 1. Survey a broad range of qualitative methods. Audience: Graduate 2. Critique methods in research. Audience: Graduate 3. Navigate Institutional Review Board protocols. Audience: Graduate 4. Formulate research questions and selecting the appropriate method for answering them. Audience: Graduate 5. Write a literature review in relation to research questions. Audience: Graduate 6. Conduct techniques out in the field. Audience: Graduate 7. Create qualitative (thematic) "codebooks" and learn how to write analytic memos. Audience: Graduate 8. Implement analytical frameworks (and talking about how these are different from your theoretical frameworks). Audience: Graduate 9. Analyze, write up data, once collection is complete. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Survey a broad range of qualitative methods. Audience: Graduate 2. Critique methods in research. Audience: Graduate 3. Navigate Institutional Review Board protocols. Audience: Graduate 4. Formulate research questions and selecting the appropriate method for answering them. Audience: Graduate 5. Write a literature review in relation to research questions. Audience: Graduate 6. Conduct techniques out in the field. Audience: Graduate 7. Create qualitative (thematic) "codebooks" and learn how to write analytic memos. Audience: Graduate 8. Implement analytical frameworks (and talking about how these are different from your theoretical frameworks). Audience: Graduate 9. Analyze, write up data, once collection is complete. Audience: Graduate