Undergraduate Prerequisites: Not open to undergraduates. - Graduate Prerequisites: GMS MA 710, GMS MA 770, and Summer Fieldwork Directed Study credits (c ontact instructor for more information). - Examines strategies for analyzing medical anthropology data deriving from interviews and documents. In addition to reviewing different coding strategies and the rationales underlying them, the course, offered by Medical Anthropology and Cross Cultural Practice, will discuss topics such as approaches to managing textual data; the selection and application of epistemological and theoretical frameworks; narrative and discourse analysis; cognitive anthropology theory and methods; the use of grounded theory. Emphasizes the application of these strategies to the analysis and interpretation of data collected by the students as part of the course process. Prereq: Permission of instructor. 3 cr, Fall sem. W 10-12:50, Medical Campus.

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