This course is designed to familiarize advanced graduate students with a range of qualitative research methods, and prepare them to use these methods in writing dissertations, articles, and funding applications. Qualitative methods are an important tool in community economic development and serve to illustrate best practices, policy, estimate community impact or needs, and evaluate community-based organizations. This course will emphasize the use of qualitative methods, data collection and analysis, and cover topics on case studies, use of secondary sources, focus groups and in-depth interviewing, observational field research, and writing qualitative research reports. Prerequisite: CED801 or faculty permission.