SYM5005 - Qualitative research strategies
12 points, SCA Band 1, 0.250 EFTSL
Postgraduate Faculty of Arts
Leader(s): Jan van Bommel
Offered
Caulfield First semester 2009 (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
Prohibitions
13 October 2017
25 August 2024