About the course
Qualitative research methods serve to explore the grey areas that remain outside the confines of quantitative predictive research in human behavior. Training in qualitative research is absolutely essential to understand and explore the dynamic nature of the society in which we function.This course introduces students to qualitative research and helps them understand how qualitative research supplements quantitative inquiry in human behavior and the social sciences.
Pre-requisites
Bachelors Degree
Industries that will recognize this course
Education.
Course instructor
Aradhna Malik
earned her Masters in Child Development from Panjab University, Chandigarh,
India and PhD from University of Denver, USA. She has been serving Indian
Institute of Technology Kharagpur as faculty in the School of Management since
2008.Aradhna teaches intercultural communication, business ethics and
organizational behavior to Undergraduate, Masters and Doctoral level students.
Her research and academic interests include, ageing, orality, human technology
interaction, intercultural communication, communication disorders, management
of public health and neuro linguistic programming (NLP).
Course layout
Week 1: Introduction to qualitative research
Week 2: Major paradigms & perspectives
Week 3: Major paradigms & perspectives (Contd.)
Week 4: Strategies of inquiry
Week 5: Strategies of inquiry (Contd.)
Week 6: Methods of collecting & analyzing empirical materials
Week 7: Methods of collecting & analyzing empirical materials (Contd.)
Week 8: Interpretation, evaluation & presentation
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The exam is optional for a fee. Exams will be on 23 April, 2017
• Time: Shift 1: 9am-12 noon; Shift 2: 2pm-5pm
• Any one shift can be chosen to write the exam for a course.
• Registration url: Announcements will be made when the registration form is open for registrations.
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The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee
needs to be paid. More details will be made available when the exam
registration form is published.
Certificates:
• Final score will be calculated as : 25% assignment score + 75% final exam score.
• 25% assignment score is calculated as 25% of average of 8 weeks course: Best 6 out of 8 assignments.
• E-Certificate will be given to those who register and write the exam and score greater than or equal to 40% final score. Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup. It will have the logos of NPTEL and IIT KHARAGPUR. It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.