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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.
QRGP 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 QRGP 6305 Qualitative Research Design.
Offered occasionally.
QRGP 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.
QRGP 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.
QRGP 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.
QRGP 6310 – Autoethnography
This course introduces students to the historical, epistemological, theoretical,
methodological, and procedural foundations of autoethnography. Students will learn a
variety of approaches to autoethnography including individual, collaborative, critical,
interpretive, and transformational forms and will practice appraising the quality of
different types of autoethnographic reports. They will also learn how to conceive and
conduct an autoethnography.
