Qualitative Methods

Catalog description

Geographers use qualitative methods to understand how societal associates operate and how people experience, contribute to, or make efforts to reshape these associations. Qualitative methods are important for examining social processes and experiences in geographic research. This graduate course aims to prepare geography students in the use of qualitative methods to design their research, collect qualitative data, process and analyze it, and draw conclusions. It also helps students on triangulation with mixed-method approach, and the ethical treatment of qualitative research.