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ENG-701 Research Methodology: School of Arts and Social Sciences

This document outlines a course on research methodology for graduate students in English. The 3-credit course introduces qualitative research methods and focuses on methods relevant to the humanities like interviews, life histories, focus groups, and discourse analysis. The course aims to help students identify research settings and data, choose appropriate qualitative methods, conduct fieldwork analysis, and report results. Students will be assessed through quizzes, assignments, midterm and final exams, and a presentation. The course materials include texts on research paradigms, archival research, biography, oral history, visual methodologies, and dissertation writing.

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ENG-701 Research Methodology: School of Arts and Social Sciences

This document outlines a course on research methodology for graduate students in English. The 3-credit course introduces qualitative research methods and focuses on methods relevant to the humanities like interviews, life histories, focus groups, and discourse analysis. The course aims to help students identify research settings and data, choose appropriate qualitative methods, conduct fieldwork analysis, and report results. Students will be assessed through quizzes, assignments, midterm and final exams, and a presentation. The course materials include texts on research paradigms, archival research, biography, oral history, visual methodologies, and dissertation writing.

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GIFT UNIVERSITY 1

COURSE OUTLINE
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

ENG-701
Research Methodology

MPhil English

Fall Semester 2015

Faculty: Department of English, School of Arts and Social Sciences


Credit hours: 3
Course level: Graduate
Campus/Location/Instruction Mode: GIFT University/On Campus/In-Person
Course Instructor: Dr Ismat Jabeen
Consultation hours: To be announced
Pre-requisite: None
Timing As per timetable
This document was last updated: Fall 2015

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
GIFT UNIVERSITY 2

COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course introduces the basic and advanced concepts and practices in research. Since the
students are from the Humanities disciplines, the course will concentrate on qualitative
methods. It has been designed for scholars who have some basic knowledge of research
practices. Qualitative research complements quantitative research and there may be some
areas where it is more likely to reflect the complexity of observable data. For some social
researchers, especially those working in the human sciences, qualitative research may be
more suitable to describe human actions and their symbolic exchanges. As a major approach
of conducting social inquiry, qualitative research has become a critically important
contributor of knowledge about human social processes. The disciplines that have benefitted
from qualitative research include literary studies, ethnography, ethnology, anthropology,
psychology, social work, sociology, comparative religion studies, and critical theory.

COURSE AIMS
In this course, the students will be able to learn the following key elements of qualitative
research:

● identifying the setting and data

● choosing the appropriate qualitative research methods or combining/mixing methods

● fieldwork analysis

● reporting the results

The students should be introduced to the following methods of observation and data analysis:

● the in-depth and unstructured interview

● life histories

● focus groups

● thematic categorization

● discourse analysis

● symbolic exchange/interaction analysis

● deconstruction/critique

● narrative analysis

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
GIFT UNIVERSITY 3

COURSE CONTENTS
Introduction to Research
● Constructing valid research questions
● What’s a hypothesis/thesis statement/statement of the problem?
● Selection of text as representation and Interpretation
● Cognitive biases in the selection of text
● Politics of interpretation
● Examples and styles of Interpretation
● Concept of Research Paradigm and comparative study of major paradigms of research
● Place and process of literary studies in academic research
● Literary Research Methods:
1. Archival Research Methods
2. Auto/biography as a Research Method
3. Oral History as a Research Method
4. Visual Methodologies
5. Discourse Analysis and Critical Discourse Analysis
6. Ethnography as a Research Method
7. Quantitative Methods for textual/literary studies
8. Textual Analysis as a Research Method
9. Creative Writing as a Research Method
10. Semiotics as a research method

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
GIFT UNIVERSITY 4

ASSESSMENT

Item Assessment Task Frequency Weightage


1 Quizzes 2 15%
2 Assignments 2 15%
3 Mid Term Examination 1 25%
4 Presentation 1 10%
5 Final Examination 1 35%
All components of the above instruments are compulsory and must be completed in order to
obtain a passing grade.

TEXTS AND SUPPORTING MATERIALS


● Kilito, Abdelfattah. “Dog Words.” In: Angelika Bammer (ed.), Displacements: Cultural
Identities in Question. Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1994, pp. xxi–
xxxi.
● American Psychological Association (2010). Publication manual of the American
Psychological Association (6th ed.). Washington, DC: Author.
● Best, J. W. & Kahn, J. V. (2006). Research in Education (10th ed.). Boston, MA: Allyn &
Bacon.
● Cone, J. D. & Foster, S. L. (1993). Dissertations and theses from start to finish:
Psychology and related fields. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
● DiTiberio, J. K. & Jensen, G. H. (1995). Writing and personality: Finding your voice, your
style, your way. Palo Alto, CA: Davies-Black Publishing.
● Jan Blommaert and Dong Jie. The Ethnographic Fieldwork .
● McMillan, J. H. & Schumacher, S. (2010). Research in education (7th ed.). Boston:
Pearson.
● Morgan, G. A. & Griego, O. V. (1998). Easy use and interpretation of SPSS for Windows:
Answering research questions with statistics. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates,
Inc.
Rudestam, K. E. & Newton, R. R. (1992). Surviving your dissertation: A comprehensive
guide to content and process. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications.
● Sternberg, D. (1981). How to complete and survive a doctoral dissertation. New York: St.
Martin’s Press.
● Waugh, C. K. (2013). WED 594 – Advanced Research Methods Student Manual. SIUC:
Department of Workforce Education and Development
● Weedman, C. (1975). A guide for the preparation and evaluation of the dissertation or
thesis. San Diego, CA: Omega.

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

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