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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