Qualitative Data Analysis.

Catalog description

Semester course; 3 seminar hours (delivered online, face-to-face or hybrid). 3 credits. Prerequisite: EDUS 711 or equivalent. The graduate seminar surveys methods of text analysis. The focus of the course is on developing skills that students can use to do systematic analysis of textual data, including written, text, photos and audio or video data. The course will explore a range of inductive and deductive approaches and will cover analytic skills that cut across traditions, including theme identification, code definition and construction of codebooks, as well as teamwork in text analysis. Advanced topics covered will include grounded theory, classical content analysis and word-based analysis. The course is also designed as a practicum in qualitative data collection and analysis, which will include participant interviewing.