SY3005 - 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;
• Identify the requirements, conditions and issues associated with the implementation and management of a research project;
• Identify research strategies for recording, analysing and managing data;
• Critically discuss the theoretical, political and ethical issues associated with social scientific research.

Inadmissible Subject Combinations:

AN2113 AN3113 SS2023 SS3023 SS5005 SS5100 SY2005 SY2048 SY3048 WS2007

Availabilities
Townsville, Internal, Study Period 1
Census Date 24-Mar-2016
Coordinator:	Assoc. Professor Glenn Dawes
Contact hours:	39 hours workshops/Seminars - hours of lectures and/or tutorials and/or workshops
Assessment:	essays (50%); assignments (50%).
Cairns, Internal, Study Period 1
Census Date 24-Mar-2016
Coordinator:	Dr Roger Wilkinson
Contact hours:	39 hours workshops/Seminars - hours of lectures and/or tutorials and/or workshops
Assessment:	essays (50%); assignments (50%).
External, Study Period 1
Census Date 24-Mar-2016
Coordinator:	Dr Roger Wilkinson
Contact hours:	2 hours - Email and LearnJCU Discussion Board
Method of Delivery:	and CDROMWWW - LearnJCU
Assessment:	essays (50%); assignments (50%).

Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.