Methods Classes: Research Writing
UMass
Method: Research Writing
School: Umass
Course: Public Health 631
Course Level (G/U): Graduate
Course Title: Epidemiological Investigation
Course Description:Provides students with the necessary analytic techniques, technical resources, and writing expertise to design and write their own thesis proposal and final thesis manuscript in the field of epidemiology. Also applies to students preparing to publish in journals and write grant proposals. Based on structure of a research proposal, beginning with sessions on conducting a literature review, progressing through methods and results, to the discussion. Students prepare a written proposal and a class presentation, and critique another student's presentation.
Instructor(s): Lisa Chasan-Tabe
Fall 2012 Schedule: r
Method: Research Writing
School: Umass
Course: Nursing 317
Course Level (G/U): Undergraduate
Course Title: Writing in Nurse Ethics
Course Description:Ethics and the role of the nurse are used as the contexts for the development of writing skills. The techniques of specific types of writing are learned through writing assignments, peer editing and instructor feedback.
Instructor(s): Clare Lamontagne
Fall 2012 Schedule: see here
Method: Research Writing
School: Umass
Course: Education 797T
Course Level (G/U): Graduate
Course Title: Seminar in Writing
Course Description: This seminar will explore current perspectives on the nature of writing as a sociocultural and political activity. Drawing on a variety of fields of study this course will emphasize issues of identity, access and marginalization, and will involve participants in writing and reading across a wide genre of academic and non-academic genres.
Instructor(s):
Fall 2012 Schedule: See Spire
Method: Research Writing
School: Umass
Course: Education 897A
Course Level (G/U): Graduate
Course Title: Professional Journal Writing
Course Description:Students learn education journal editorial procedures such as composite manuscript reviews, book reviews, annotated bibliography of year's writing.
Instructor(s): see here
Fall 2012 Schedule: See Spire
Method: Ethnography, Writing
School: Umass
Course: Anthropology 697CC
Course Level (G/U): Graduate
Course Title: Writing Ethnography
Course Description: This graduate seminar takes ethnography as its object of analysis and its subject of practice. The seminar provides students with tools for thinking through the politics of representation. We examine the ongoing consequences of the representational crisis that plagued ethnography, with vehemence in the 1980s, and investigate how and to what degree the genre has recovered. As Veena Das asks, “What is it to engage the life of the other in the context of the everyday?” We may also question whether we are committed to ethnography as a genre, and if so how and why? In addition, the seminar will provide students with a space to practice their own ethnographic writing. In both our reading and writing, we will explore conventional as well as experimental (or blurred) forms of representation, including critical ethnography, the ethnographic novel, creative non-fiction, and cross-cultural memoir.
Instructor(s): Elizabeth Krause (Spring 2012)
Fall 2012 Schedule: Not offered
Hampshire
Method: Research Design; Writing?
School: Hampshire
Course: CS (Cognitive Science) ?
Course Level (G/U): Undergraduate
Course Title: Research Experience In Psychology: Understanding Autobiographical Memory
Course Description:In this course students will gain first-hand experience in the process of conducting research in autobiographical memory. Students will be exposed to some of the main issues in autobiographical memory for personal past events throughout the childhood years and into adulthood. We will consider the potential roles social interaction, self, culture, and emotionality of events as well as developmental changes in autobiographical memory reports. Course requirements will include reading primary research articles, and designing and executing an original research project. This is an intensive course comprising instruction in all areas of the research process, including collecting, coding, and analysis of data.
Instructor(s): Melissa Burch
Fall 2012 Schedule:
Mount Holyoke
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