COMM 8110 is also offered in Spring 2024
COMM 8110 is also offered in Spring 2023
COMM 8110 is also offered in Fall 2021
Spring 2024 | COMM 8110 Section 001: Seminar: Communication Research Methods -- Qualitative Research Methods in Social Sciences (67272)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 15 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
UMTC, East Bank
Ford Hall 200
- Enrollment Status:
Open (5 of 15 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Evaluation of research methods in speech-communication.
- Class Notes:
- This course concerns the range of qualitative empirical methods employed in the social sciences, emphasizing data collection and analysis related to communication. Research methods covered include ethnographic studies, ethnography of communication, interviews/focus groups, discourse analysis, conversation analysis, content analysis, and grounded theory approaches. This course will equip you with various qualitative theories that allow you to choose the best method to analyze and theorize your data. In other words, this course is designed with both theoretical and practical objectives in mind. You will develop a comprehensive understanding of the landscape of qualitative methods and equip you with sufficient knowledge and skills to further advance your methods of interest on your own terms. We will explore how various forms of qualitative studies provide different theoretical lenses and constitute different views on the social processes of human interaction. The course emphasizes the procedures, modes of reasoning and theorizing, and forms of presentation particular to qualitative analysis and research writing. Ethnographic/participant observational methods (and other qualitative methods) are best learned by conducting an actual piece of research that employs them. Therefore, the primary form of instruction in this class will begin with several weeks of reading and lectures followed by group discussions and reports based on their actual applications of the methods in class activities or personal projects.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67272/1243
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