Qualitative Course Offerings

College of Education

For Educational Leadership and Policy Doctoral Students

The Ph. D Program in ELP requires that students take a minimum of 18 semester hours of methods, as follows:

            Required Core – 12 Hours

            ELP 7020 Logic of Theory Development                                                          3 hours

            ELP 7040 Quantitative Methods                                                                       3 hours

                        -Prerequisite ELP 6030- Introduction to Research Design      3 hours

            ELP 7060 Qualitative Methods                                                             3 hours

            Specialization Sequence – 6 hours – Six additional hours with a qualitative or quantitative focus. These must be taken outside of the Department.

Please find summarized below all graduate-level qualitative methods courses currently being offered in the College of Education as of Spring Semester 2004.  This summary of qualitative courses offered in the College is provided to help students:

1) know what is available;
2) know which Department offers these courses;
3) and help students choose qualitative courses that do not duplicate the teaching-learning offered in the ELP (and other) qualitative courses.

Introductory Courses

           ECS 7670 Conceptual Issues in Qualitative Research --  Overview of paradigms, epistemologies and different models.

ELP 7060 Qualitative Research Methods 1 --  Overview of paradigms and research design.

Advanced Courses

           ECS 7671 Qualitative Research Methods --  Study design, interviewing & observational theories and strategies, analysis, writing

ELP 7062 Qualitative Research Methods II (Preq ELP 7060)

Advanced Plus

           ECS 7672 Ethnographic Research Methods --  Explores the ethnographic model of research.

ECS 7673 Evaluating Qualitative Research --  Conceptualization, execution, and self/group assessment of own work.

Spans Introductory/Advance Continuum

            EdPsy 7420 Qualitative Research in Psychology – Overview of paradigms, design, interviewing and observational strategies, proposal writing.