Qualitative Courses
ANTH 456
Contemporary Ethnography (5) Techniques and theories of ethnographic description for the anthropological analysis of contemporary life. Materials drawn from the contemporary United States, with a focus on issues and events in the Seattle area. Includes fieldwork projects. Prerequisite: one 200-level ANTH course or LING 203. Offered yearly
COM 513
Fieldwork Research Methods (5-, max. 10) Philipsen. Methods of fieldwork research in communication studies, with emphasis on participant observation, ethnography, and discourse analysis.
COM 515
Rhetorical Criticism Warnick, Ceccarelli. History and method of rhetorical criticism. Application of critical standards to various rhetorical artifacts.
COM 516
Descriptive & Analytic Communication Research Methods (5) Baldasty. Development of the historical approach to communications research. Study of historical methods, bibliography, and criticism.
COM 584
Ways of Speaking (5) Theory and literature of the ethnography of communication, with special emphasis on the descriptive-comparative approach to culturally patterned styles of communicative conduct. Offered: jointly with ANTH 584.
EDC&I 578
Qualitative Methods of Educational Research (5) Survey of various qualitative research methods from a variety of disciplinary perspectives (anthropology, sociology, applied linguistics, cognitive psychology, policy analysis, and evaluation) with intensive experience in collection, analysis, and reporting of data. Prerequisite: second year doctoral standing and one course in statistics. Offered: jointly with EDPSY 586.
HIST 598
Methods of Historical Research (5) Sears, Poiger. Exploration of new historical and scholarly techniques employed in historical research. Use of social science methodology and literary theory in the evaluation and interpretation of historical sources. Use of feminist theory, deconstruction, critical theory, and orality/literacy studies. Student research paper is based upon a chosen theoretical approach. Offered yearly.
POLS 493
Qualitative Research Methods (5) Simpson. Offered yearly.
SOC 555
Methods in Macro, Comparative and Historical Sociology (3) Kiser. Systems of conducting research with qualitative methods brought to bear on broad questions. Offered every other years.
TC 425
Technology Assessment (5) Bereano. In-depth analysis of the concept, practice, and methods of technology assessment (policy analysis that concentrates on social consequences of technological development): social, political, economic, and environmental impacts of new technologies; options for channeling these developments; and relevant decision-making institutions and processes. Offered yearly: Winter.
WOMEN 503
Feminist Research and Methods of Inquiry (5) Allen. Explores appropriate research methodologies for interdisciplinary work. Asks how scholarship is related to feminism as a social movement and to the institutions in which we work. Focuses on how similar objects of study are constituted in different disciplines for feminist scholars. Offered yearly: Spring.