Graduate Certificate

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:

1.			Both of the following courses (6 credits):
			CEP	930	Educational Inquiry						3
			TE	931	Introduction to Qualitative Methods in Educational Research						3
2.			At least three of the following courses (9 credits):
			HST	803	Seminar in Methodology of Historical Research						3
			SOC	985	Qualitative Field Research						3
			TE	938	Qualitative Data Analysis						3
			TE	939A	Special Topics in Advanced Qualitative Methodology						3
			TE	939B	Advanced Qualitative Methods: Critical Ethnography						3
			TE	939C	Advanced Qualitative Methods: Discourse Analysis						3
			TE	939D	Advanced Qualitative Methods: Case Studies						3
			TE	939E	Advanced Qualitative Methods: Humanities Oriented Research						3
			TE	939F	Advanced Qualitative Methods: Phenomenology						3
			TE	939G	Advanced Qualitative Methods: Humanizing Research: Decolonizing Qualitative Inquiry						3
			WRA	870	Research Methodologies in Rhetoric and Writing						3