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224.864.01
Doctoral Seminar in Research Methods in Applied Medical Anthropology II

Location
East Baltimore
Term
2nd Term
Department
International Health
Credit(s)
4
Academic Year
2019 - 2020
Instruction Method
TBD
Class Time(s)
M, W, 8:30 - 10:20am
Auditors Allowed
No
Available to Undergraduate
No
Grading Restriction
Pass/Fail
Course Instructor(s)
Contact Name
Frequency Schedule
Every Year
Prerequisite

224.863

Description
Discusses methods for collecting and analyzing qualitative data; quantifying ethnomedical beliefs; and integrating qualitative and quantitative methods. Topics include cultural consensus analysis, scale development and testing, multi-dimensional scaling, analysis of structured observation data, development of manuals for qualitative data collection, and the use of social science data in the design of public health interventions.
Learning Objectives
Upon successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
  1. Describe the evolution in the concepts and methods of cognitive anthropology over the past 50 years
  2. Explain the implications of key concepts in cognitive anthropology (e.g. prototypicality, marked and unmarked terms) for the design, analysis and interpretation of quantitative data collected with instruments informed by the findings of qualitative studies
  3. Describe the problem of intracultural variation, and its implication for public health and list different types of intracultural variation
  4. Describe types of research questions for which structured observation would be appropriate
  5. List different ways of conducting structured observation, and select the form of structured observation that would be appropriate for different research questions
  6. Identify approaches to data analysis that would be appropriate for different kinds of structured observation data, and list the steps in conducting each analysis approach
  7. List the assumptions made in cultural consensus analysis, the types of data for which cultural consensus analysis should always be conducted, the steps in conducting cultural consensus analysis, and the strengths and weaknesses of this type of analysis
  8. Distinguish between cultural consensus theory and cultural schema theory
  9. Describe the steps in conducting free-listing, and common threats to the validity of free-listing data; analyze and interpret a set of free-listing data
  10. List the characteristics of proximity data, and describe different ways proximity data can be collected and analyzed; list common threats to the validity proximity data collected through pile sorting (card sorting)
  11. Describe the steps in conducting Guttman scaling, situations where Guttman scaling may be appropriate, and the strengths and weaknesses of Guttman scaling
Methods of Assessment
This course is evaluated as follows:
  • 99% Assignments