Advanced Qualitative Research

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PREREQUISITES: EDU 610 . This course will expose advanced graduate students to a variety of sophisticated qualitative approaches common to the fields in the social sciences. Students will consider the philosophical, ethical, and social-cultural contexts that underpin that major qualitative traditions such as phenomenology, grounded theory, narrative, and case study methodologies. Students are expected to analyze the conceptual differences of these approaches with an emphasis of critique and application to extant research and an original research project. Students will apply philosophical, epistemological, and methodological foundations commonly associated with the qualitative paradigm to design and carry out a sound and rigorous independent research study