Wolff-Michael Roth, Lansdowne Professor (Instructor/Facilitator)
May-June 2001
[Day-to-Day Lesson Information] [Resources] [Course Description]
At this point, there will be a hot link to a web site where students will find the latest information to be shared, details about the process of the course, and other useful links.
[Day to Day Lesson Description]
Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung/ Forum Qualitative Social Research is an important bilingual e-journal on qualitative inquiry.
The Qualitative Report. An online journal dedicated to qualitative research and critical inquiry since 1990.
A comprehensive listing of internet resources in and on phenomenology can be found here.
Resources for Social Researchers. These links provide you with avenues to sources of information that may prove very useful to sociologists and others interested in social issues or sociological activities.
The University of Victoria library allows you to access a number of educational journals via the internet. [Ejournals]
The purpose of this course is to assist students in learning to do interpretive inquiry, collecting data sources, analyzing data, writing research. In this course, the instructor / facilitator will assist students to achieve the learning goals that these set at the outset of the course.
The epistemology underlying this course is one in which research practices are learned by participating in research, by actively analyzing data, and by writing research. Students are encouraged to send samples of their writing for ongoing feedback from the beginning to the end of the course. See the following chapter, co-authored with a former graduate student of mine, for my ideas about appropriate environments for graduate student development.
During the first lesson, instructor / facilitator and students will determine the amount, level, and nature of the readings that best will fit the needs to the members of this class.
Details for the activities to be conducted will be worked out together with the students during the first meeting. At this point in time, I have three general ideas to be brought to the discussion. First, we read and discuss a number of articles or chapters that we will choose together. Second, in a collective effort, we analyze a dataset and write, under my guidance, a publishable piece. It is in the accomplishment of this second part, that I consider major learning about scholarship to occur. Third, students will report on their own ongoing work.
In addition to class meetings, participants are encouraged to interact with their peers and with me using electronic means. Notes will be posted and updated on this web site.
Students will define the goals for continuing to write on their own projects. In addition, students will contribute on the collaborative analysis and writing project that we will conduct in a collective fashion. Stiudents will also conduct necessary background research as the need arises.
Students will set their goals during the first meeting. It is assumed that all students will strive for mastery, that is, a letter grade of A-, A, and A+. To achieve an A+, students should demonstrate outstanding features.
designed by Wolff-Michael Roth, March 2001