SY2005 - Qualitative Research
| Credit points: | 03 |
| Year: | 2016 |
| Student Contribution Band: | Band 1 |
| Administered by: | College of Arts, Society & Education |
Qualitative research is a process of data generation through innovate methods and combinations such as interviews, ethnography, focus groups, participatory action research and, photovoice. More recently, unobtrusive data gathered through the Internet as well as social media is being used by social researchers to explore innovative research questions, problems and solutions. Also, the subject examines how data is organised and coded, sometimes through computer software programs, and disseminated through the traditional written word, and, how social researchers are now combining indigenous and digital forms of storytelling to give voice to marginalised and dispossessed groups. Qualitative research also considers how decolonizing methods can also play a central part in understanding how social groups engage with, reject, and modify imposed representations by dominant cultures.
Learning Outcomes
- Understand qualitative research by reading ethnographies;
- Critically discuss the theoretical, political and ethical issues associated with social scientific research;
- Identify appropriate research strategies for recording, analysis and managing data;
- Demonstrate knowledge about the requirements, conditions and issues associated with the implementation and management of a research project.
| Inadmissible Subject Combinations: | AN2113 AN3113 SS2023 SS3023 SS5100 SY2048 SY3005 SY3048 SS5005 WS2007 |
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| Townsville, Internal, Study Period 1 | |
| Census Date 24-Mar-2016 | |
| Coordinator: | Assoc. Professor Glenn Dawes |
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| Assessment: | essays (50%); assignments (50%). |
| Cairns, Internal, Study Period 1 | |
| Census Date 24-Mar-2016 | |
| Coordinator: | Dr Roger Wilkinson |
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| Assessment: | essays (50%); assignments (50%). |
| External, Study Period 1 | |
| Census Date 24-Mar-2016 | |
| Coordinator: | Dr Roger Wilkinson |
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| Method of Delivery: | and CDROMWWW - LearnJCU |
| Assessment: | essays (50%); assignments (50%). |
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