VT406E Qualitative Camp 2007
Euro-American course in Qualitative Research Methods (CMS386N)
January 8th – 12th
University of Texas at Austin and Bodø Graduate School of Business
The University of Texas Marine Science Institute, Port Aransas, Texas
Registration form for Scandinavian students: Application_Form_VT406E_2007.doc
The CMS 386N class at the Univeristy of Texas at Austin for the spring of 2007 will be taught in a special format. It will include graduate students from Europe (primarily Scandinavian countries) with an equal number of US students. The first half of the course will be taught in a single six-day period from Sunday evening, January seventh through Friday evening, January the twelfth. The class will meet at the University of Texas Marine Science Institute in Port Aransas Texas (http://www.utmsi.utexas.edu/). One half-day period of this week will be a tour on the MSI craft “Katy” (http://www.utmsi.utexas.edu/institute/longhorn/katy.htm) to observe field research in marine sciences. The costs for room and food for these six days is approximately $35 per day with barracks-like sleeping facilities and excellent food. Ethnographic films will be shown some evenings and used as a stimulus for writing field notes and examining likeness and differences between researchers’ views.
Special features also include a reading plan that students will complete prior to arriving in Port Aransas. European professors will also make presentations as part of the program. In addition to an intense focus on observational and interviewing methods during this week, there will be a series of presentations by recent Masters and Doctoral holders who used qualitative research as their primary data collection method. The purpose of these presentations will be to expose graduate students to work similar to their own anticipated dissertation research.
Enrollment in this special course is by instructor permission only and is limited to twelve US students and twelve European students. Students will be admitted based on their project plans and appropriateness for the course. For this three hour University of Texas course, US students will conduct field research on a major project in the spring of 2007 following this weeklong workshop and meet in the latter half of the spring of 2007 to complete the class meeting requirements and to present the results of their field research. European students, will receive credit from Bodø Graduate School of Business and must turn in a research proposal or a paper prior to the course, present this during the week, and then turn in a final revised paper by the end of spring term. For European students, the course count as 10 ECTS credits upon completion of the final paper.
Tentative Program
Arrival Saturday/Sunday
Monday 8th of January:
11:00 – 12:00 Lunch
12:00 – 14:00 The nature of qualitative inquiry (Larry Browning)
14:00 – 16:00 Summary of literature for the course (group exercise)
16:00 – 17:00 Introduce exercise on the R/V Katy for next day
18:00 Dinner
Tuesday 9th of January
09:00 – 12:00 Trip on R/V Katy
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch
13:00 – 17:00 Classroom exercises (Larry Browning)
18:00 Dinner
Wednesday 10th of January
09:00 – 12:00 Presentation by faculty
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch
13:00 – 17:00 Group work
18:00 Dinner
Thursday 11th of January
09:00 – 12:00 Presentation by faculty
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch
13:00 – 17:00 Group work
18:00 Dinner
Friday 12th of January
09:00 – 12:00 Concluding remarks/wrap-up
Course Organizers:
Larry D. Browning, University of Texas at Austin (UT students)
Jan-Oddvar Sørnes, Bodø Regional University (Scandinavian students)
Presenters/Faculty:
Senem Guney (Product development in high technology)
Judy Shetler (Self-organization and teamwork in an award-winning Texas firm)
Susan Szmania (Resolution meetings between victims and perpetrators
Sarah Lessica (Airline pilots and the right to carry guns in the cockpit
Allison Alford (Therapist’s views of deception in client sessions)
Keri Stephens (ICT use in organizations)
Jan-Oddvar Sørnes (ICT use in organizations)
Frank Lindberg (topic pending)
The course fee will be 4000 NOK og 500 EUR for Scandinavian students, and covers room and board, and transportation from the airport (Houston) to Port Aransas. A van will leave the Houston airport at 4 pm on Sunday January 7th, and return on Friday the 12th just after lunch. It may also be an option to fly to Corpus Christie on a direct flight from Atlanta on Delta Airlines. But, the cheapest option will probably be to fly to Houston.
We kindly ask you to notice the following deadlines: (Scandinavian students only)
Registration: December 1st 2006
Payment: 15th of December 2006
Submission of paper/proposal: 20th of December 2006
As a rough guide, papers should be no more than 15 pages in length (proposals can be shorter), not including charts and references - line spacing should be 1 1/2 (one and a half). The papers should focus on the research problem and methodological issues concerning your research. Further guidelines about the paper will be given upon registration or by inquiry.
Literature will be based on the Sage Series on Qualitative Research, and will be added later.
For further information please contact Larry or Jan at:
Larry D. Browning, Ph. D
Professor of Communication Studies and Graduate Advisor
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas 78712 USA
Phone: 512.471.1931 Fax: 512.471.3504
lbrowning@mail.texas.edu
http://commstudies.utexas.edu/
Jan-Oddvar Sørnes, Ph.D
Førsteamanuensis/Associate Professor
Bodø Graduate School of Business
Handelshøgskolen i Bodø, Norway
Phone: +47 75517233, home: +47 75521843
Cell: +47 908 39 821
Jan.Oddvar.Soernes@hibo.no
www.hhb.no
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