Methods Classes: Interview
UMass
Method: Interviewing
School: Umass
Course: Nursing 315
Course Level (G/U): Undergraduate
Course Title: Health and physical assessment
Course Description: Students organize, interpret and document data using processes interviewing, physical exam, and clinical reasoning skills.
Instructor(s): http://www.umassulearn.net/classes/fall-2012/programs?view=class&clid=10130&pid=134
Fall 2012 Schedule: Katharine Green
Method: Interviewing
School: Umass
Course: Education 632
Course Level (G/U): Graduate
Course Title: Principles of Psychological Testing in Education
Course Description: Major uses and types of educational and psychological tests. Reliability and validity issues and approaches. Use of norms tables and reporting scores. Construction of tests. Selection and evaluation of tests.
Instructor(s):
Fall 2012 Schedule: See Spire
Method: Interviewing
School: Umass
Course: Education 789
Course Level (G/U): Graduate
Course Title: Interviewing and qualitative research
Course Description: A project centered course in which each student carries out a mini-research project using in-depth interviewing as the methodology. Through the students' individual work and sharing of their experience in a workshop-seminar setting, we cover methodological issues such as the purpose of interviewing; developing a proposal; establishing access and selecting participants.
Instructor(s):
Fall 2012 Schedule: See Spire
Method: Fieldwork, Interviewing
School: Umass
Course: Sociology 791N
Course Level (G/U): Graduate
Course Title: Fieldwork & Interviewing
Course Description:
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Mount Holyoke
Method: Interviewing
School: Mount Holyoke
Course: Psychology 323s
Course Level (G/U): Undergraduate
Course Title: Laboratory in Personality Research: Qualitative Methods
Course Description: This laboratory course focuses on the study of individual lives and explores interviewing as a qualitative research strategy for the understanding of human experience. The course aims to provide a forum to discuss the study of individual lives within the social sciences, to consider interviewing techniques and qualitative methods of data analysis, and to provide students the opportunity to conduct a study of their own using this methodology.
Prereq. Psychology 200, 201, 220, and permission of instructor. Students must meet with the instructor during advising week to get permission to enter the course
Instructor(s): Lawrence (2004)
Fall 2012 Schedule: Not offered
Method: Ethnography; Interviewing; Research Design
School: Mount Holyoke
Course: Anthropology 275
Course Level (G/U): Undergraduate
Course Title: Doing Ethnography: Research Methods in Anthropology also listed as Research Methods in Cultural Anthropology
Course Description: This course examines anthropological fieldwork techniques, including interviewing and participant observation, as well as qualitative approaches to the analysis of cultural data. Topics include cross-cultural field techniques, research design, ethical dilemmas, and the difference between academic and applied research. Research projects are an integral part of this course.
Prereq. Anthropology 105 or 4 credits in department
Instructor(s): Roth (2011)
Fall 2012 Schedule: Not offered
Method: General Methods; Research Design; Writing; Interviewing; Ethnography; Fieldwork; Historical; Content Analysis?
School: Mount Holyoke
Course: Psychology 323f
Course Level (G/U): Undergraduate
Course Title: Laboratory in Qualitative Research
Course Description: (Speaking- and writing-intensive course) This course offers a hands-on introduction to methods of psychological research that focus on the qualitative description and analysis of human experience. Students learn a variety of techniques of data collection (interviewing, intensive observation, archival research) and methods of analyzing textual sources -- from historical accounts to blogs, memoirs, observational narratives, and interview transcripts. Readings focus on specific methodological practices as well as on the history and philosophy of science differentiating qualitative methods from other approaches to psychological research. Students work both collaboratively and individually on projects throughout the course.
Prereq. Psychology 200 and permission of instructor. Students must meet with Prof. Hornstein during advising week.
Instructor(s): Hornstein
Fall 2012 Schedule: yes
Method: General Methods; Writing; Interviewing; Ethnography; Fieldwork; Historical
School: Mount Holyoke
Course: Psychology 202f
Course Level (G/U): Undergraduate
Course Title: Qualitative Methods in Psychology
Course Description: (Writing-intensive course) This course provides an introduction to the skills necessary for qualitative research. Students learn a variety of methods of data collection (interviewing, intensive observation, archival research) and interpretation of findings (phenomenology, grounded theory, narrative analysis), as well as the philosophy of science that underlies qualitative research. The course culminates in an original, collaborative research project.
Prereq. Psych 100, 200
Instructor(s): Hornstein(2004)
Fall 2012 Schedule: Not offered
Method: General Methods; Writing; Interviewing; Ethnography; Fieldwork; Historical
School: Mount Holyoke
Course: Sociology 216f
Course Level (G/U): Undergraduate
Course Title: Introduction to Qualitative Research and Data Analysis
Course Description: This course introduces students to qualitative research methods. The course is designed for students to receive basic training in the collection and analysis of qualitative research data, gain experience writing and presenting qualitative data, get exposure to the theoretical assumptions underlying qualitative inquiry, and to gain insight about the ethical responsibilities surrounding qualitative social analysis. We will focus on methods such as in-depth interviews, focus groups, participant observation, and archival analysis. Prereq. Sociology major
Instructor(s): Banks
Fall 2012 Schedule: yes
Amherst
Method: Interviewing, Assessment
School: Amherst
Course: Psychology 353
Course Level (G/U): Undergraduate
Course Title: Psychological Assessment
Course Description: This course examines methods used by psychologists to understand the psychology of individual personalities. The primary focus is on three psychological assessment tools: the Early Memories Procedure, the Thematic Apperception Test, and the traditional interview. Students will take these devices themselves, read the theory behind them, examine case studies by prominent psychologists using these devices, and conduct their own interpretations of responses given by college students and by psychotherapy patients. In the process, students should develop a good understanding of the complexity of the clinical thought process.
Requisite: PSYC 221 or 228. Open to juniors and seniors. Limited to 15 students.
Instructor(s): Amy Demorest
Fall 2012 Schedule: Not offered