Course: Qualitative Data Analysis

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Course title Qualitative Data Analysis
Course code KSA/AKDAK
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminar
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 4
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Topinka Daniel, doc. PhDr. Ph.D.
  • Šotola Jaroslav, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
1. Basics of analytical techniques 2. Open coding - basic rules and starting points 3. Open coding - practice I. 4. Open coding - practice II. 5. Working with qualitative software 6. Memoing 7. Analysis of individual codes and code families 8. Advanced coding, category creation 9. Searching for relationships between categories, units of analysis 10. Alternative coding (narrative approach, phenomenological analysis) 11. Main rules of presentation of work results in text 12. Ethnographic writing

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook)
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to acquaint students with the techniques of qualitative data analysis and thus builds on the previous course Creating Qualitative Data. The discipline presents the bases of qualitative data and mainly deals with coding procedures (open coding, memoing, theoretical sensitivity, advanced coding phases). It is focused on practical training of analysis together with writing ethnographic texts.
Student is able to evaluate acquired data, describe methodology in a transparent way and appropriately present the obtained conclusions.
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Student performance

Submission of data corpus analysis
Recommended literature
  • Bernard, H. R. (2011). Research Methods in Anthropology..
  • Crang, M., Cook, I. (2009). Doing Ethnographies. London: SAGE..
  • Denzin, N. K.; Lincoln, Y. S. (2011). The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research. London: SAGE..
  • Hammersley, M. - Atkinson, P. (2007). Ethnography. Principles in Practice. 3rd ed. New York and London: Routledge..
  • Saldana, J. (2021). The Coding Manual for Qualitative Researchers. London: Sage.
  • Strauss, A., Corbin, J. (1999). Základy kvalitativního výzkumu: postupy a techniky metody zakotvené teorie. Boskovice: Albert..


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