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Researching Sex and Drugs B - ARTS5042
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School:  HIV Social Research
 
   
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Postgraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 2
 
 
Fee Band: 2 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
  

Description

This course equips students with qualitative research skills relevant to the study of sex and drug practices. Social theory understands these practices as socially and culturally produced. However they are also frequently constituted as personal, private, illicit or even shameful. This raises various challenges for the researcher, including questions of ethics, design, and interpretation of findings. This course will introduce students to a range of qualitative methods including interviewing, ethnography, focus groups, and research with cultural materials (including popular media and archives). Students will carry out a number of practical exercises, giving them experience in a variety of different research methods.


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