College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Graduate Catalog

228 compose reviews. Students will also serve as ad hoc reviewers for The Qualitative Report (TQR). Offered occasionally. MACS 6305 - Qualitative Research Design This course covers knowledge and skills needed to design a qualitative research study and compose a qualitative research proposal. Students will learn how to construct and justify a qualitative research study, synthesize the relevant research literature, generate discovery-oriented research questions, select sites and samples, create a manageable method including a quality control system, address ethical issues, and discuss potential implications and limitations. Students will compose their own qualitative research proposals and Institutional Review Board for the Protection of Human Subjects (IRB) protocols and consent forms offered summer. MACS 6306 – Conducting Qualitative Research I This course covers the activities involved in the initiation of a qualitative research study. Students will start the study they proposed in MACS 6305 Qualitative Research Design. Offered occasionally. MACS 6307 Conducting Qualitative Research II This course covers the activities involved in the culmination of a qualitative research study. Students will complete the study they proposed in QRGP 6305 Qualitative Research Design and started in QRGP 6306 Conducting Qualitative Research I. Offered occasionally. MACS 6308 - Writing Qualitative Research Students will learn how to write up their qualitative research inquiries from the earliest steps of their studies through the manuscript submission process using writing and representational styles consistent with their research design and purpose. To this end, students will produce their own original qualitative research papers that incorporate the basic elements of qualitative research reports and best practices for communicating their methodological choices and research findings in transparent and coherent prose. Students will also learn how to evaluate the quality of their compositions and revise their drafts via the use of rubrics and manuscript checklists. While it is not necessary that other Qualitative Research courses have been taken in the Certificate Program, it is a requirement that you have conducted your own research – this course will assist writing up results of a qualitative study. Offered occasionally. MACS 6309 - Arts-Based Qualitative Research This course presents various ways in which to incorporate arts-based strategies into qualitative research design, in order to generate additional data, address researcher bias, deepen qualitative analysis, and enhance the presentation of research findings. For example, the course will explore ways in which the use of collage can be used to both strengthen researcher bracketing and reflexivity, as well as a data generation technique in combination with journaling. The course will also address how poetry can be used as a technique to both validate and represent research findings; students will practice found data poetry in developing findings, and the use of various poetic forms to convey key findings. In addition, students will be introduced to photo voice, a method that involves study participants taking photos to capture their lived experience and understandings of particular social phenomena. Throughout the course, ethical issues related to arts- based qualitative research will be considered and discussed. Offered occasionally. MACS 6310- Auto ethnography This course introduces students to the historical, epistemological, theoretical, methodological, and procedural foundations of auto ethnography. Students will learn a variety of approaches to auto ethnography including individual, collaborative, critical, interpretive, and transformational forms and will practice appraising the quality of different types of auto ethnographic reports. They will also learn how to conceive and conduct an auto ethnography. Offered occasionally. MACS 6322 – Food Web Dynamics A food chain is simply "who eats what". A food web weaves together many food chains to form a complicated network of feeding relationships. Many animals eat more than one thing, and each link in each chain is important and integral to the entire system. The interactions in a food web are far more complex than the interactions in a food chain. This course is designed to study the basic components and processes of trophic dynamics, how these comprise different marine ecosystems and how these systems can be altered. MACS 6332 – Human Sexuality and Gender Reviews the psychosocial development of sexuality and gender form childhood through old age. Summary of clinical approaches to sexual and gender problems, comparing interactional approaches with psychodynamic and behavioral models. MACS 6340 – Marine Mammals This course provides an overview of the anatomy, biomedicine evolution, husbandry, natural history, pathology, and physiology of the cetaceans, pinnipeds, sirenians, and allies. MACS 6550 – International Perspectives in Counseling and Therapy The course is designed to review issues relevant to the practice of couples and family therapy in an international context. Issues explored during the course include: the adaptation of western models of therapy for practice in other countries; immigrant family experiences and the relevance to clinical practice in the US; and global ethical issues in counseling and therapy. Specific cultures reviewed during the course will include Mexico, China, Cambodia, South America and India, to