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Qualitative Research
A Brief History of Qualitative Research at the University of Georgia
The Qualitative Research Program at the University of Georgia provides a graduate certificate in Interdisciplinary Qualitative Studies and an array of courses in qualitative research design, methods, and theory. For students seeking a doctoral concentration in qualitative research methods, we have typically collaborated with the College of Education’s Research, Evaluation, Measurement, and Statistics Program. However, students from across college and university programs have used the certificate program to build minor and cognate specialties in qualitative research. Our graduates conduct and teach research across areas in education, in clinical fields, and in other professional and social sciences. Some hold leadership positions in policy forums and in a variety of formal, nonformal, and informal educational arenas where their research skills promote institutional development and renewal.
Beginning with one course and a single instructor in 1976, the program now has five full-time faculty lines and a steadily increasing number of affiliated faculty members from around the university. It is one of only two such certificate programs worldwide devoted exclusively to qualitative research. Faculty members practice and study the range of traditions associated with qualitative research: interpretive study, historical study, sociocultural research, emancipatory traditions, evaluation research, and postmodern and poststructural traditions.
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