READINGS & ASSIGNMENTS
Date Topic Readings
Aug. 26 Introduction to the Course Denzin & Lincoln: 1-17
Doctoral Education Sandelowski: 125-132
Interdisciplinary Research
Teams
Aug. 27 Designing a Qualitative Study Creswell: 13-26
Developing & Funding Your Dreher: 281-297
PhD Research Morse: 220-235
Guest Speaker: Elizabeth Marshall, MS
Sept. 2 Philosophical Dimensions of Guba & Lincoln: 105-117
Knowledge Kuhn: 10-22
What Is Nursing Knowledge? Streubert & Carpenter: Chapters 1 & 2
Health Sciences Knowledge? essay 1 due
Guest Speaker: Anita Kinney, RN, PhD
Sept. 3 Problem Analysis: Literature Creswell: 27-45; 93-107
Review & Problem Statement Griffin: 39-53
Across Designs Guest Speaker: Karin Kirchhoff, RN, PhD
Sept. 9 Critical Theory & Feminism Boutain: 1-8
Creswell: 73-91
Freire: 27-56
Habermas
Olesen: 158-174
essay 2 due
Sept. 10 Data Collection Methods Coyne: 623-630
Sampling Docherty & Sandelowski: 177-185
Interviewing Fontana & Frey: 361-376
Focus Groups Kuzel: 31-44
Miles & Huberman: 81-83
interview due
Sept. 16 Data Collection Methods Bottorff: 244-261
Observation Breitmayer et al.: 237-243
Videotaping, Photography Flick: 136-160; 161-166
Triangulation McMahon: 320-336
observation due
Sept. 17 Data Analysis Methods Coffey & Atkinson: 1-25;26-53
Glaser & Strauss: 101-115
transcribed interviews due
Sept. 23 Data Analysis Methods Readings to be assigned
Objectivist vs Heuristic Ballis: 41-61
Coding Chase: 38-62; 217-224
Dey: 115-147
Kelle: 52-61
Seidel: E1-E16
Guest Speaker: John Seidel, PHD
Sept. 24 Data Analysis Methods Coffey & Atkinson: 54-82;83-107
Miles & Huberman: 50-89
transcribed interviews due
Sept. 30 Data Management Coffey & Atkinson: 165-188
Miles & Huberman: 43-49
Sandelowski: 205-209
Weitzman & Miles: 9-15;16-22
Paper/Project Outline Due
Oct. 1 Research Critique Flick: 221-240
Rigor Hall & Stevens: 16-29
Leininger: 95-115
Lincoln & Guba: 289-331
Miles & Huberman: 262-280
Paterson: 301-316
Sandelowski: 27-37;79-87
essay 3 due
Oct. 7 & 8 Semester Break
Oct. 14 Ethnography Streubert & Carpenter: Chapters 5 & (6)
Oct. 15 Grounded Theory Glaser & Strauss: 2-6;15-18;21-43
Streubert & Carpenter: Chapters 7 & (8)
Oct. 21 Phenomenology Streubert & Carpenter: Chapters 3 & (4)
Guest Speaker: Debra Huber, RN, PhD
Oct. 22 Case Study & Biography Stake: 236-247
Yin: 18-53
Oct. 28 Historical Research Streubert & Carpenter: Chapters 9 & (10)
Oct. 29 Action Research Greenwood & Levin: 15-31;53-66;67-91
Smith, Pyrch, & Lizardi: 319-324
Nov. 4 Student Critiques
Nov. 5 Student Critiques
Nov. 11 Survey Research Kirchhoff: 229-242
Guest Speaker: Karin Kirchhoff, RN, PhD
Nov. 12 Survey Research Guest Speaker: Karin Kirchhoff, RN, PhD
Nov. 18 International/Cross-cultural Ferketich et al: 227-230
Design Issues Ketefian & Redman: 11-15
Leininger: 341-347
Phillips et al: 149-154
Varricchio: 54-63
Final Day to Submit Research Critique
Nov. 19 Student Presentations of paper/project in work groups
Nov. 25&26 Thanksgiving Recess
Dec. 2 IRB Miles & Huberman: 288-297
Coalition Building Punch:83-97
U of U IRB Forms
Guest Speaker: Irene Hurst, RN, PhD
Paper/Project Due
Dec. 3 Computer Assisted Data
Management: ETHNOGRAPH Guest Speaker: John Seidel, PhD
Dec. 9 Computer Assisted Data transcribed interview on disk due
Management: NUDIST
Dec. 10 Publishing & Presenting Coffey & Atkinson: 108-138
Descriptive/Qualitative Creswell: 167-191
Research Miles & Huberman: 298-306
Course Evaluation Streubert & Carpenter: Chapter 13
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