Fall 2022  |  SOC 8851 Section 001: Advanced Qualitative Research Methods: In-Depth Interviewing (32742)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate Student
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/06/2022 - 12/14/2022
Fri 11:45AM - 02:15PM
UMTC, West Bank
Social Sciences Building 1114
Enrollment Status:
Closed (12 of 12 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Interviewers have opened up other worlds to the sociological imagination and taught us much about the way people think, feel, and make sense of the world as well as of their own identities. We will conduct interviews; transcribe, code, and analyze interview data; and write up interview- based research. We will also consider a range of epistemological, practical, and ethical issues related to interviewing as a research method, reading materials drawn from a broad range of substantive sociological subfields as well as from geography. This course is best suited to graduate students who have an interview-based project in mind and want to acquire the skills for carrying out their research, and students who are considering using interviews in their dissertation research and want to try their hand at interviewing before making a decision. Because this is a hands-on, fieldwork-based course, no auditors are permitted.
Class Notes:
12 seats reserved for Sociology graduate students Click this link for more detailed information: http://classinfo.umn.edu/?cabdi+SOC8851+Fall2022
Class Description:
In-depth interviewing allows us to unveil the complex lived experiences of individuals and communities as a researcher delves deeply into the everyday practices, choices and constraints individuals face in their private and public lives. This course presents to the students techniques as well as interview-based published work. Each student pursues an original project that will be completed over the course of the semester. Students will thus learn about in-depth interviewing [adjusted in light of covid-19 constraints] 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 interviewing as a research method and methodology as we work through students' projects over the course of the semester.
Who Should Take This Class?:
This course is appropriate for students whose research project is interview-based or those interested in exploring multiple forms of research methods. As the course requires students to conduct their own independent research, auditing is not allowed.
Grading:
20% Research proposal and peer review memo on research proposals
10% Transcriptions and memo on interviews
20% Coded interview data and peer review memos on classmates' coded material
50% Final Paper
Class Format:
Zoom live
Workload:
50-60 pages of reading per week
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/32742/1229
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
8 October 2020

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