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Jan 13, 2025
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COMS 7140 - Qualitative Analysis in Communication
This class engages students in the practice of doing qualitative data analysis. Students use their own collection of qualitative data and learn techniques for analyzing and interpreting this data. The course covers many different approaches to coding ranging from the general (e.g., descriptive coding) to the specific (e.g., grounded theory, narrative, etc.). Students code data, engage in analytic memoing, create a codebook, and craft a methods section based on the knowledge gained in class.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 seminar
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will be able to critically analyze interpretive methods and analysis.
- Students will be able to critique and defend different approaches to coding.
- Students will be able to apply various approaches to coding.
- Students will be able to describe and use the necessary components for an accurate methods sections.
- Students will be able to describe the necessary components of a codebook.
- Students will be able to critique three different analysis processes and apply those processes to a particular context.
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