Qualitative data analysis

Teacher(s)

Berger Mathieu;

Language

French

Prerequisites

The prerequisite(s) for this Teaching Unit (Unité d’enseignement – UE) for the programmes/courses that offer this Teaching Unit are specified at the end of this sheet.

Main themes

The course has four components: 1. Introduction to research logic 2. Ethnographic observation 3. The semi-directing interview 4. Thematic analysis

Aims

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :
1	The aim of the lectures and practical course work is to ensure that students acquire an ability to produce and analyse Social Sciences data qualitatively. By the end of the course, students should be able to: - specify the type of problem-question for which it would be relevant to adopt the various methods studied in the course; - discuss the relevance of the various data production mechanisms - make intelligent use of the principal instruments of data production and analysis

The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled “Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.

Other information

Course entry requirements: This course expands on the Study Skills Seminar which students therefore need to have taken before they take this course. It prepares the ground for the Practical Research in Sociology and Anthropology Seminar and the Practical Research in Political Science Seminar. 

Faculty or entity

ESPO