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| Semester: | Fall 2024 |
| Number: | 0503-649-001 |
| Instructor: | Jennifer Chmielewski |
| Days: | Monday 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm |
| Note: | Traditional In-Person Class |
| Location: | Garden City - Hy Weinberg Center 334 |
| Credits: | 3 |
| Notes: |
For majors only |
| Course Materials: | View Text Books |
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Jennifer Chmielewski for
Fall 2023* |
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| Description: |
This course aims to introduce students to qualitative methods and to a rich interdisciplinary literature for extracting potentially quantifiable meaning from subjective accounts. This course will acquaint clinical psychologists with approaches that may be useful for analyzing information from interviews, focus groups, social network data and verbal narratives. |
| Learning Goals: |
The primary learning objectives of the course are: 1. To become familiar with major qualitative analysis approaches including Grounded Theory, Descriptive/Empirical and Hermeneutic and Phenomenology, Feminist Listening Theory, Kelly's Personal Construct Theory, Ethnography and Ethnomethodology, Narrative Theories, and Discourse Analysis2. To learn how to obtain quantifiable material from written and speech samples.3. To be able to use techniques such as Semantic Differential; Repertory Grid, and Sorting techniques to elicit meanings and explanations4. To be able to perform content analyses using readily available (and often free) computer software;5. To be able to construct coding and classification schemes for specific content domains6. To be able to analyze social interaction and network data using state-of-the-field techniques. *The learning goals displayed here are those for one section of this course as offered in a recent semester, and are provided for the purpose of information only. The exact learning goals for each course section in a specific semester will be stated on the syllabus distributed at the start of the semester, and may differ in wording and emphasis from those shown here. |
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