The Graduate Certificate in Qualitative Research Methods is designed for doctoral students enrolled in College of Education doctoral programs. It focuses on enhancing doctoral students’ theoretical and practical preparation and expertise in conceiving, designing, conducting, analyzing, and reporting qualitative research studies as well as preparing them to teach both introductory and advanced courses in qualitative research methods when assuming faculty positions elsewhere.
Admission
Students must be currently enrolled in a doctoral program in the College of Education at Michigan State University and must complete the Intent to Enroll form on the program Web site.
Requirements for the Graduate Certificate in Qualitative Research Methods
Students must complete 15 credits from the following:
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Both of the following courses (6 credits): |
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CEP |
930 |
Educational Inquiry |
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3 |
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TE |
931 |
Introduction to Qualitative Methods in Educational Research |
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At least three of the following courses (9 credits): |
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HST |
803 |
Seminar in Methodology of Historical Research |
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SOC |
985 |
Qualitative Field Research |
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3 |
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TE |
938 |
Qualitative Data Analysis |
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3 |
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TE |
939A |
Special Topics in Advanced Qualitative Methodology |
3 |
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TE |
939B |
Advanced Qualitative Methods: Critical Ethnography |
3 |
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TE |
939C |
Advanced Qualitative Methods: Discourse Analysis |
3 |
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TE |
939D |
Advanced Qualitative Methods: Case Studies |
3 |
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TE |
939E |
Advanced Qualitative Methods: Humanities Oriented Research |
3 |
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TE |
939F |
Advanced Qualitative Methods: Phenomenology |
3 |
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TE |
939G |
Advanced Qualitative Methods: Humanizing Research: Decolonizing Qualitative Inquiry |
3 |
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WRA |
870 |
Research Methodologies in Rhetoric and Writing |
3 |