• Students will develop and demonstrate an understanding of strategies for qualitative inquiry including phenomenology, grounded theory, narrative inquiry, case study, and ethnography, on their own and in the context of action-oriented research and design. Students study methodological topics including the stance of the researcher, sampling, data collection, coding and thematic analysis, and procedures for assessing trustworthiness of qualitative data, interpretation, and reporting. Students learn how to develop a research question and proposal in the context of a literature review and conceptual framework.