Jamie Baxter
Associate Professor - UWO Geography Geography 9108 - Qualitative Methods in Social Geography |
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Qualitative Methods in Social Geography - (Graduate Course) 3 lecture hours, half course, Winter Refresh this page each visit to ensure you are viewing up-to-date content.
Mar. 25/14 Code transcript - Code the first two pages of this transcript prior to class.Mar. 24/14 NVivo software demo - Here is the link to register if you want to follow along on your laptop in class. There will be opportunity to type or verbally ask questions too: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/121530906 Mar. 16/14 Rigour and Counting Critique Circles - We will lead off the session this week with critique circles. You will read each others' pieces on the "culture of Tim's" to assess quality. Though you should read as many as possible, I have assigned you to groups, so focus on the two in your group first (jot down some notes, or mark up the piece with track changes and comments). The groups are as follows (alphabetical order): 1) Emily A, Houda, Kaitlyn 2) Michael, Cliff, Jen; 3) James, Brittany, Sarah; 4) Mark, Emily M., Van; 5) Lydia, Caren, Jonathan, Germaine. You do NOT need to upload a formal critique, just be prepared to discuss within your group. Mar. 14/14 Readings update - As I indicated in class yesterday, I have changed the readings for next week. Specifically, I have removed three (they are now in strikethrough font) and I inserted the one about "new biker" culture, from the mini-ethnography assignment. You MUST, ABSOLUTELY read ALL of the material and write the mini ethnography, described here. High quality conversation depends on you reading the material. We have two empirical pieces to discuss next week, and the purpose is to think about them in terms of trustworthiness/quality/rigour. Likewise, you should be thinking about such issues as you write your mini ethnography. What makes it good? Mar. 7/14 Roll your own - We are all going to write an ethnography or grounded theory of Tim Hortons. Brittany and Emily's ethnography activity sparked some good discussion about what makes for good enthnography and we agreed to extend this into an improptu assignment in lieu of a future critical appraisal. The details are here. Jan. 2/14 Welcome - Currently we have 13 registered for the course - a nice sized group for this course. First Class - is Jan 9, 2014 and is mainly organizational. Be prepared to sign up for your presentation topic in this session.
May I take this course? Cap
is 18 students.
Timetable
Text: Nagy
Hesse-Biber, S. and Leavy, P. 2004. Approaches to Additional readings: Some sessions will include additional readings (see schedule below). Most of these readings are available through journals to which UWO has free on-line subscriptions, but we will have space in the Resources section of Owl to share these readings too. Substitute readings?: If you have a reading you would like to substitute into your session, please contact me to discuss at least a week ahead of your session. In terms of the amount of reading each week, I think we would prefer in most instances to replace an existing reading, rather than add more? -
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