Schedule

This page contains an outline of the topics, content, and activities for the semester. Note that this schedule will be updated as the semester progresses and the timeline of topics and activities might be updated throughout the semester.

Activities are generally due the Friday of the same week it is posted.

Last updated: November 02, 2026 at 09:53 AM

Date	Topic	Prepare	Materials	Activities	Homework
8/24	Introductory Material	Getting to know you survey	Week 1 overview Week 1 Google Drive folder Slides from class Syllabus R for Non-Programmers (R4NP) Ch. 1.1, 1.3, 1.4, 2	Hello World (Submit to google drive by end of class)
8/31	Qualitative Data and Analytic Tools	ATLAS.ti: The Ultimate Guide to Qualitative Research - Part 1: The Basics (Please read Sections 1-5 and 22) Read Math 130 (1.2-1.5) Copy code alongs 01 and 02 to your home folder	Week 2 overview Week 2 Google Drive folder Slides from class Code along 01-intro_r	Complete, render and submit code along 01 as PDF to google drive by Friday 9/4	[HW01] Working with data in R [QMD] (Due F 9/11) [Solutions]
9/7	Data Exploration (Async)		Week 3 overview Week 3 Google Drive folder Week 3 Podcast Episode Part 1 Week 3 Readings Code along 02-wwd. VIdeo walk through in Google Drive.	Complete, render submit codealong 02 as PDF to google drive by Friday 9/11	HW 02 (Due F 9/18)
9/14	Fundamentals of Data Management	ATLAS.ti: Part 2: Handling Qualitative Data (Please read Sections 1-5 and 7) Copy 03 code along and hw03 template to your home folder Pre-reading Tidy Text Mining - Preface, R for NP Ch 14 intro	Week 4 overview Week 4 Google Drive folder Tidy Text Mining with R (TTM) Ch 1 R for NP Ch 14.1 and 14.2 Tidy text code along: [Slides][QMD file]	Practice knowledge check (in class. Hand written notes only. No page limit)	HW03: Working with text data (Due Fri 9/25) [Solutions]
9/21	Analytic Process, Part 1	Read McLeod - Open Coding in Qual Research Read TTM Ch 2 - Intro through 2.2 only Install package sentiment libraries. (See Wk 5 overview for details) Copy 04 codealong to your home folder Prepare a set of written notes for today's knowledge check	Week 5 overview Week 5 Google Drive folder McLeod (2024) Open Coding in Qual Research Grounded Theory Intro TTM Ch 2 Sentiment analysis code along: [Slides][QMD file]	Knowledge check on week 1-4 content	HW04: Submit hard copies of coding documents. Due M 10/5 start of class.
9/28	Analytic Process, Part 2	Read McLeod - Writing Analytic Research Memos Read Ligita et al. (2022): From Textual to Visual: The Use of Concept Mapping as an Analytic Tool in a Grounded Theory Study	Week 6 overview Week 6 Google Drive folder In class slides TTM Ch 4 R4NP Ch 14 - Mixed methods N-grams code along: [Slides] [QMD]
10/5	Analytic Process, Part 3	Read R4NP Ch 14.3	Week 7 overview Week 7 Google Drive folder Helper Code	Report on key research question and specify the data set(s) needed for analysis.	HW 05: Concept Maps & Analytical Memos (Due M 10/19) Code along 05 (Due F 10/9)
10/12	Analytic Process, Part 4	Read TTM Chapter 6.1 (intro)	Week 8 overview Week 8 Google Drive folder TTM Ch 6.1 & 6.2: Topic Modeling LDA code along: [Slides] [QMD]	High level draft of #4 & #5 in project proposal Code along 6	HW 06 - Topic Modeling (Due F 10/23) Code along 06 (Due F 10/16)
10/19	Inter-rater Reliability	Prepare your sheet of notes for the knowledge check	Week 9 overview Week 9 Google Drive folder	Knowledge check on week 5-8 content Group work time Interrater reliability activity
10/26	Discovering Topics, Team building	LDA Homework and notes	Week 10 Google Drive folder	The great library heist The case file The Key	Project Proposal Due F 10/30
11/2	Data privacy, public scholarship		Data available in Jupyterhub Interviews - interviews.Rds Survey - survey.csv Week 11 Google Drive folder Data Privacy slides Data privacy handout	Importance of public scholarship Data privacy & Protections Improving your methods section	Monday 11/2: Read data into your RStudio environment Tuesday 11/3: Specific logisics plan for managing ethnographic tasks Friday 11/6: Midterm Peer Evaluation Mon 11/16: Week 13 prep reading
11/9	Reassess your Research Priorities, Prepare for the presentation		Presentation template
11/16	Creating Recommendations; Leveraging AI/LLM to assist in Qual Research; Presentation Preparation		Week 13 overview	Knowledge check on week 9-12 content
11/30	Practice presentations			Practice Presentations with feedback
12/7	Culminating Project			Actual Presentations

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