HPRO 5701
Adv Qual RM in Health
This course is intended for students in thesis-based graduate health-related programs to help guide the development of a qualitative research proposal. This course will begin with graduate-level skills in evidence synthesis and critical appraisal of research, and foundational concepts across a variety of research designs and approaches will be explored and critiqued before emphasizing qualitative methods and proposal preparation. The course will focus on qualitative inquiry and design, differentiate between method and methodology, and examine a variety of qualitative approaches, including their philosophical and methodological underpinnings. Students will formulate a qualitative research purpose, design a qualitative study, and begin to develop a research proposal, in addition to an introduction to research ethics and knowledge translation.