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SOCY333 Qualitative Research Methods

Updated: 06 January 2009
Credit Points 6
Offering
Responsible Campus Teaching Period Mode of Study
Armidale Semester 1 Off Campus
Armidale Semester 1 On Campus
Online level Level B - Internet access required
Intensive School(s) None
Supervised Exam There is a UNE Supervised Examination held at the end of the teaching period in which you are enrolled.
Pre-requisites 12 cp at 100 level in SOCY or candidature in a postgraduate award
Co-requisites None
Restrictions None
Notes None
Combined Units None
Coordinator(s) Gail Hawkes (ghawkes@une.edu.au)
Unit Description

This unit introduces students to qualitative research methods in sociology. Approaches covered will be selected from a range including, but not necessarily limited to: ethnography, life history analysis, interviewing, focus groups, document analysis, action research, content and discourse analysis, and visual analysis. Questions of research ethics and validity and reliability will also be addressed. Students who successfully complete the unit should be sufficiently familiar with the various approaches to be able to match appropriate method(s) to particular research contexts.

Prescribed Material
Mandatory
Text(s):

Note: Students are expected to purchase prescribed material

Qualitative Research Methods
ISBN: 9780195517446
Liamputtong, P. and Ezzy, D., Oxford University Press 2nd ed. 2005
Text refers to: Semester 1 , On and Off Campus
Disclaimer Unit information may be subject to change prior to commencement of the teaching period.
   

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