SYM5005 - Qualitative Research Strategies

Leader: Jan van Bommel

Offered

Caulfield First semester 2007 (Evening)

Synopsis

Theories, critiques and ethical issues in qualitative social research. Qualitative research methods and strategies used in social research including participant observation, unstructured interviewing, ethnography and the analysis of documents and texts. Theoretical and methodological issues involved in phenomenology, symbolic interactionism and ethnomethodology.

Assessment

Two pieces of written work (4500 words each): 100%

Contact hours

2 hours (1 x 2 hour seminar) per week