Qualitative Research Methods I

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This course explores ways to conceptualize a topic of study and facilitates formulation of conceptual work for students and production of research reports at the end of the first year of the program. The course conveys how to generate research ideas by critically reviewing literature and developing ideas that contribute to a problem or issue of interest by working with theory and extending previous research. The practicality of conducting certain kinds of research is evaluated and methodological rigor, intensity and ethical constraints of different research efforts are examined. Each student produces a research proposal communicating and supporting a conceptualization of the phenomenon of interest involving a problem of practice and research question. The paper defines this problem of practice, and presents, both visually and in narrative form, concepts shaped by field experience and prior writing that promote understanding of the problem. This includes a research proposal describing a sample population, methods of data collection and data analysis. Prereq: MGMT 665 .