Tuesday, November 6, 2018

ENSP306 - Fundamentals of Qualitative Research Methods for Environmental Studies

This spring, ENSP is offering a pilot course that can satisfy their Applied Science and Policy requirement for ENSP and be used a GIS supporting course.

ENSP306 - Fundamentals of Qualitative Research Methods for Environmental Studies
An introduction to research design and methods, with an in-depth focus on qualitative research methods and application to environmental studies. Topics include: writing an appropriate research question, identifying relevant methods, submitting a proposal to the Institutional Review Board, choosing appropriate sampling approaches, conducting interviews, focus groups, ethnographies, analyzing textual data, and presenting qualitative results.