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Graduate Course Proposal Form Submission Detail - MUE7490
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- Date & Time Submitted: 2005-09-30
- Department: Music
- College: FA
- Budget Account Number: 2402-000-00
- Contact Person: David A. Williams
- Phone: 42331
- Email: dwilliams@arts.usf.edu
- Prefix: MUE
- Number: 7490
- Full Title: Qualitative Methods in Music Education
- Credit Hours: 2
- Section Type: C -
Class Lecture (Primarily)
- Is the course title variable?: N
- Is a permit required for registration?: N
- Are the credit hours variable?: N
- Is this course repeatable?:
- If repeatable, how many times?: 0
- Abbreviated Title (30 characters maximum): Qual Meth in Mus Ed
- Course Online?: -
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- Grading Option:
R - Regular
- Prerequisites: None
- Corequisites: None
- Course Description: This course is designed to acquaint students with foundations, methods, and applications of qualitative research in education and music education.
- Please briefly explain why it is necessary and/or desirable to add this course: Presently the Ph.D. program in music education does not offer a course in the area of qualitative reserach. Students in this program only receive course work in stats and quantitative research methods.
- What is the need or demand for this course? (Indicate if this course is part of a required sequence in the major.) What other programs would this course service? This course will become one of six courses in the degree specialization from which students must take five. There is good reason to believe most students would take this course.
- Has this course been offered as Selected Topics/Experimental Topics course? If yes, how many times? No.
- What qualifications for training and/or experience are necessary to teach this course? (List minimum qualifications for the instructor.) Ph.D. in music education. Background experience with qualitative research.
- Objectives: During the course students will learn to:
- describe the historical, theoretical and philosophical foundations of qualitative inquiry
-be able to contrast and compare characteristics of qualitative and quantitative research
-understand research ethics
- complete a human subjects research IRB application form
- describe different methodologies for qualitative research
- define specific research topics in music education
- describe and critique examples of qualitative research from the literature
- develop and conduct a qualitative research project on a topic relevant to music education
- Learning Outcomes: After successful completion of this course, students will be able to ethically develop and conduct qualitative research on topics relevant to music education. They will also be able to read, understand and critique published reports of qualitative research in the field.
- Major Topics: Week 1 – Nature and Strategies of Qualitative Inquiry
Week 2 – Theoretical Orientations
Week 3 – Qualitative Applications
Week 4 – Designing Qualitative Studies
Week 5 – Fieldwork Strategies and Observation Methods
Week 6 – Summary Presentations
Week 7 – Summary Presentations
Week 8 – Qualitative Interviewing
Week 9 – Qualitative Analysis
Week 10 – Qualitative Interpretation
Week 11 – Quality and Credibility of Analysis
Week 12 – Quality and Credibility of Analysis
Week 13 – Final Project Presentations
Week 14 – Final Project Presentations
- Textbooks: Robert C. Bogdan, & Sari K. Biklen (1998). Qualitative Research for Education: An Introduction to Theory and Methods (4th Edition). Allyn and Bacon.
Andrea K. Milinki (1999). Cases in Qualitative Research. Pyrczak.
John Creswell (1997). Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design: Choosing Among Five Traditions. SAGE
Michael Quinn Patton (2002). Qualitative Research and Evaluation Methods (3rd Edition). Sage.
Supplemental readings and standardized test materials also will be put on reserve in the music library or presented in class.
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- if you have questions about any of these fields, please contact chinescobb@grad.usf.edu or joe@grad.usf.edu.