Qualitative Research Methods

Catalog description

This class presents qualitative research methodologies as alternatives to purely quantitative, statistically based techniques of investigation. Topics covered may include participant observation, grounded theory, ethnography, phenomenology and narrative approaches to research design. Data collection techniques such as interviews and focus groups are explored. Methods of analysis, writing and p resenting qualitative research are presented. All techniques will be examined in the context of the scholar -practitioner model of translational research to advance students’ ability to become independent researchers.