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Spring 2017 | SOC 8890 Section 001: Advanced Topics in Research Methods -- Interviewing (67184)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
UMTC, West Bank
Social Sciences Building 1183
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Advanced Research Methods (e.g., multilevel models), historical/comparative, field, survey research. Topics specified in Class Schedule. prereq: 8801, 8811, or instr consent. Cr will not be granted if cr has been received for the same topics title
- Class Notes:
- Click this link for more detailed information: http://classinfo.umn.edu/?cabdi+SOC8890+Spring2017
- Class Description:
- In depth-interviewing remains a fascinating research method for social scientists. This involves the study of human behavior through observation as well as through question-based data collection. In-depth interviewing allow us to unveil the complex lived experiences of individuals and communities as the researcher digs deeply into the everyday practices, choices and constraints individuals face in their private and public lives. This course presents to the students ground-breaking techniques as well as interview-based published work while also requiring each student to pursue an original interview-based project that will be completed over the course of the semester.Students will thus learn about in-depth interviewing by designing, executing, coding, analyzing and writing up their own projects. There will be a constant dialogue amongst us on the strengths, weaknesses and the complexity of in-depth interviewing as a research methodology and we will apply this critique to student projects over the course of the semester.This course is appropriate for students whose research project is interview-based or those interested in trying out interviewing as they explore multiple forms of research methods. As this is a hands-on course that requires students to do interviews, auditing is not allowed.
- Grading:
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10% Research Proposal
10% Peer review memo on research proposals
20% Memo on interviews/Transcriptions/transcripts
20% Participation
40% Final Paper
- Class Format:
- Seminar
- Workload:
- 50-70 pages reading per week
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67184/1173
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 27 October 2016
Spring 2017 | SOC 8890 Section 002: Advanced Topics in Research Methods -- Sex, Death, & Mobility: Population Modeling (67185)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
UMTC, West Bank
Social Sciences Building 1114
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Advanced Research Methods (e.g., multilevel models), historical/comparative, field, survey research. Topics specified in Class Schedule. prereq: 8801, 8811, or instr consent. Cr will not be granted if cr has been received for the same topics title
- Class Notes:
- Click this link for more detailed information: http://classinfo.umn.edu/?ewf+SOC8890+Spring2017
- Class Description:
"He not busy being born is busy dying." -- Bob Dylan
Populations are made up of people whose lives are changing all the time: growing up; moving around; having kids; gaining and losing jobs and spouses; entering and leaving schools and prisons; getting sick; and dying. This course covers population modeling techniques from the demographic tradition, organized around these kinds of life changes. These techniques excel at describing social and epidemiological changes occurring along multiple time scales simultaneously; identifying the inequalities lurking beneath population averages; and figuring out what population a research question is really about. The course assumes no prior knowledge of demography and will cover a range of applications from across the social and health sciences.
REGISTRATION NOTE: If you are not a Sociology student, you may need a code to register. Students from all disciplines are welcome in the course. Please email the instructor (ewf@umn.edu) for a registration code if you need one.
- Grading:
60% Problem Sets
20% Quizzes20% Short Essays
- Exam Format:
- Short quizzes with multiple choice, short answer, or small computations
- Class Format:
- Active lectures and seminar discussion
- Workload:
- Approx. 50 pages reading per week; weekly problem sets; five quizzes; short essays at term end on using the methods in research
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67185/1173
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 17 November 2016
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