The course provides a foundation in attending to, analyzing, and reporting meaningful information about the social world through humanistic communication research methods. The course introduces ethnographic and qualitative research methods, ethics, selection of research topics and questions, ethnographic data collection methods (e.g. participant observation; un-, semi- and structured interviewing; structured observation), managing and coding field notes, and qualitative analysis. In this course, students will create field notes, analyses, and more.
Prerequisite:
COMM 100 Minimum Grade: D
or HONS 100 Minimum Grade: D
Equivalent:
COMM 285 - OK if taken since Fall 2018
HONS 263 - OK if taken since Fall 2023
HONS 263 - OK if taken since Fall 2023