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Linda M. McMullen
University of Saskatchewan
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Context: U Saskatchewan Undergraduate Psychology Curriculum
• research-intensive
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Objectives
• to introduce students to the wide range of topics and research questions that can be pursued via
qualitative inquiry in psychology
• to familiarize students with the range of qualitative methodologies and methods of generating
and analysing data
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Outline of Course
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Arguments against the Model of the Stand-Alone Course
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Arguments for the Model of the Stand-Alone Course
• Increases the visibility, status, and depth of coverage of qualitative inquiry in our discipline
• Provides the time necessary for a sustained immersion in a new language of research
• Enables proficiency in one language of research to be further enhanced through repetition and
comparison when learning comparable concepts in the new language, e.g., epistemology;
sampling; generalization
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Comparisons
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Outline of a Restructured Undergraduate Psychology Curriculum
• Introductory course – inclusion of qualitative research via textbooks or selected readings, coupled
with a curriculum-based research experience in both quantitative and qualitative approaches
• Focus on how qualitative inquiry has shaped substantive areas of our discipline
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Aspirational Outcomes
•learning the languages of research: setting a foundation for bilingualism (quantitative and
qualitative research) (Collini, 1993)
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