ASTK12582U SEMINAR: Foundations of Qualitative Inquiry
The seminar will cover
a) central schools of thought that inspire qualitative researchers, such as hermeneutics and social constructivism
b) key concepts in qualitative inquiry, such as context, lived experience, emic-etic, meaning, typification, interpretation, situatedness, case
c) the positions qualitative researchers take in relation to
contemporary methodological issues such as causality,
generalization and evidence
Competency description
The seminar prepares the student to regard the foundations of qualitative inquiry as a set of resources relevant for discussion of central issues in the methodology of social science and as relevant for framing and defining a problem to study, for example a problem to be covered in one´s own Master´s thesis.
The goals of this Summer School (seminar) are that students
a) are able to describe and understand key concepts undergirding qualitative inquiry
b) can understand and discuss the methodological and practical consequences of paradigm choices in social science especially when it comes to applying key concepts covered in this course to specific research strategies and methodological choices
c) can justify qualitative approaches in relation to specific research problems and evaluate such justifications
d) can discuss the role of qualitative inquiry in the broader context of social science
e) can reflect about their own position and experience in relation to qualitative inquiry
Date for notice of assessment: Friday 26 september
- Category
- Hours
- Class Instruction
- 28
- Exam
- 79
- Preparation
- 168
- Total
- 275
Masterstudents af IFS:
Sign up through KUnet from 15 April to 1 May
2nd periode for signing up from 15 May to 2 june
Other students:
http://polsci.ku.dk/english/summer_school/application_procedure/
Further information contact
studievejl@ifs.ku.dk
- Credit
- 10 ECTS
- Type of assessment
- Written examinationSeminaropgave
- Marking scale
- passed/not passed
- Censorship form
- No external censorship
Criteria for exam assesment
Course information
- Language
- English
- Course code
- ASTK12582U
- Credit
- 10 ECTS
- Level
- Full Degree Master
- Duration
- 4. august - 12. august
- Placement
- Summer
- Schedule
- Schedule will come later
- Study board
- Department of Political Science, Study Council
Contracting department
- Department of Political Science
Course responsibles
- Peter Dahler-Larsen (3-7f737b4f7875823d7a843d737a)
Thomas Schwandt