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Emnekatalog: MET5010
MET5010 - Kvalitative og kvantitative metoder
Emneansvarlig:
Gunnar Harald Heiene (Gunnar.Heiene@mf.no)
Studiepoeng: 10
Undervisningstermin:
Høst og vår (Uregelmessig)
Studieprogramtilhørighet: Master in Religion, Society and Global Issues
Avdelingstilhørighet:
Avdelingsråd for religion og samfunn
Generell informasjon
This is a required core course in the degree programme Master of Religion, Society and Global Issues. MET5010 provides an overview
over research methods in the empirical study of religion at master level. It enables the students to critically understand social research,
and helps them in designing their own master thesis. The course addresses issues of research design, strategy, methods of collecting
and analyzing data and research quality and ethics. It consists of lectures and practical exercises. The course literature and lectures
are in English.
Studiekrav
To be qualified for final assessment, the student must:
- Write a book report up to 2,000 words from a limited part of the course syllabus. The topic of the report is selected in cooperation with
the professor and is graded pass/fail.
- Participate in the evaluation of the course
Avsluttende vurdering
To gain credits for the course MET5010 the student must fulfil all the requirements and pass the written exam (6 hrs). The exam is
assessed with grades A-F.
Mål og innhold
On completion of the course, the students shall:
- have discussed different research designs and strategies
- have acquired critical knowledge enabling them to select suitable method for their master thesis
- have aquired an overview of the research process when using observation, qualitative interviews and document analysis
- have conducted a research interview, done field observation and document analysis
- have aquired an overview over quantitative methods and concepts
- have aquired an overview of different approaches to data analysis
- be familiar with different approaches in evaluating the quality of research
- have reflected over ethical aspects of doing research
Litteratur
LITTERATUR/LITERATURE
- Atkinson, Paul og Amanda Coffey, "Analysing documentary realities" i:/in:/from: Qualitative research : theory, method and practice 2n
d utg./ed./ David Silverman red./ed. London: Sage, 2004, s./p. 56-75, ISBN/ISSN: 0-7619-4934-8/0-7619-4933-x
- Creswell, John W., "An excerpt" i:/in:/from: Research design : qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods approaches 3rd utg./ed.
Los Angeles: SAGE, 2009, s./p. selection of 25 pages, ISBN/ISSN: 978-1-4129-6556-9/978-1-4129-6557-6
- Markham, Anette N., "Internet communication as a tool for qualitative research" i:/in:/from: Qualitative research : theory, method and
practice 2nd utg./ed./ David Silverman red./ed. London: Sage, 2004, s./p. 95-124, ISBN/ISSN: 0-7619-4934-8/0-7619-4933-x
- Prior, Lindsay, "Doing things with documents" i:/in:/from: Qualitative research : theory, method and practice 2nd utg./ed./ David
Silverman red./ed. London: Sage, 2004, s./p. 76-94, ISBN/ISSN: 0-7619-4934-8/0-7619-4933-x
- Silverman, David, Interpreting qualitative data : methods for analyzing talk, text and interaction 3. utg./ed. London: Sage, 2006,
ISBN/ISSN: 1-4129-2245-3/1-4129-2244-5/978-1-4129-2245-6/978-1-4129-2244-9
- Yang, Keming, Making sense of statistical methods in social research Los Angeles: Sage, 2010, ISBN/ISSN:
978-1-84787-287-6/978-1-84787-286-9
SUPPLERENDE LITTERATUR/SUPPLEMENTARY LITERATURE
- Bryman, Alan, Social research methods 3rd utg./ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008, ISBN/ISSN:
0-19-920295-8/978-0-19-920295-9
- Hammersley, Martyn og Paul Atkinson, "Chapter 1-5" i:/in:/from: Ethnography : principles in practice 3rd utg./ed. London:
Routledge, 2007, s./p. 1-120, ISBN/ISSN: 0-415-39604-2/0-415-39605-0/978-0-415-39604-2/978-0-415-39605-9