The aim of this course is to teach students the basics of qualitative research and to acquire the skills of collecting, analyzing and reporting data by creating design and planning in a qualitative research.

Criticism of positivist methods, epistemological foundations of qualitative research, pattern and planning in qualitative research, ethics in qualitative research, data collection in qualitative research, thematic analysis, embedded theory, interpretive phenomenological analysis, discourse analysis, Foucault style discourse analysis, qualitative research evaluation, qualitative research criticism.