HELSEF4410 – Introduction to Qualitative Methods

Knowledge

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

• explain the basic fundamentals of qualitative research
• understand basic concepts and approaches in qualitative methodology
• understand what type of research questions that can be answered using qualitative methods.
• describe the main methods used in qualitative health research
• explain quality criteria of qualitative research

Skills

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

• discuss the fundamentals of qualitative research
• develop a qualitative research design
• produce qualitative data
• apply basic principles of qualitative data analysis and present qualitative data
• critically discuss qualitative research designs and their applications in health research
• discuss the strengths and limitations of qualitative research designs

General competence

You will be able to:

• critically evaluate qualitative research methodology
• reflect upon ethical and scientific standards of qualitative research
• identify and reflect upon ethical challenges in qualitative research

This course is only available for students at the following master's programmes:

• International Community Health (master)
• Tverrfaglig helseforskning (master) (being phased out)
• Folkehelsevitenskap og epidemiologi (master)

Students who are admitted to study programmes at UiO must each semester register which courses and exams they wish to sign up for in Studentweb.

If you are not already enrolled as a student at UiO, please see our information about admission requirements and procedures.

The course runs in a period of three weeks and consists of lectures and seminars.

Each seminar follows the lectures. During the seminars you work with group assignments.

Compulsory activities:

• 80 % attendance in the seminars is required to be eligible to take the exam. Attendance will be registered.
• Oral presentation of the compulsory group assignment.

A student who has completed compulsory instruction and coursework and has had these approved, is not entitled to repeat that instruction and coursework. A student who has been admitted to a course, but who has not completed compulsory instruction and coursework or had these approved, is entitled to repeat that instruction and coursework, depending on available capacity.

Individual home exam.

All compulsory activities must be approved prior to taking the exam.

Examination and grading at The Faculty of Medicine.