HSRV302-16S1 (C) Semester One 2016

Qualitative Social Research

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 22 February 2016
End Date: Sunday, 26 June 2016
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 4 March 2016
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 20 May 2016

Description

The development of a research culture in human services is an important challenge for educators, managers, practitioners and students. The creative tension between research, theory and practice is a necessary aspect of human services work and study. A strong research culture contributes significantly to the development of knowledge and practice in human services. Standards of research and human service practice grow and develop in conjunction with field development. As the nature and scope of research activity and opportunity are diverse within the human services settings, this course aims to provide a basis from which students can begin to develop a research culture across the range of contexts. By introducing a range of qualitative research methods and enabling students to experience manageable research assignments, students will become increasingly familiar with the business of research and how it fits within complex and diverse human service systems.

Learning Outcomes

  • Objectives
  • To establish a human services practice research culture by promoting an integrated understanding of the links between human services practice, theory and research.
  • To facilitate a beginning level of competence in research and to encourage students to become research producers.
  • To provide a basic understanding of qualitative research methods.
  • To promote an action-based process of learning whereby students can directly experience research activity.

Prerequisites

Any 30 points of Human Services at 200 level including HSRV204. Students without this prerequisite but with at least 60 points at 200 level or above in appropriate courses may enter the course with the permission of the Programme Coordinator.

Restrictions

Equivalent Courses

Course Coordinator

Maria-Victoria Perez Y Perez

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Reflective Journal 04 Apr 2016 40%
Interview Exercise 02 May 2016 10%
Analysis Exercise 16 May 2016 20%
Online Test 01 Jun 2016 30% LIVE: Friday, 27th May at 9 a.m.

Textbooks / Resources

Recommended Reading

Liamputtong, Pranee; Qualitative research methods ; 4th ed; Oxford University Press, 2013.

Notes

Course readings and resources will be available on LEARN

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $717.00

International fee $2,913.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Language, Social and Political Sciences .

All HSRV302 Occurrences

  • HSRV302-16S1 (C) Semester One 2016