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In this hands-on course, you will learn how to interview college students across the political spectrum. We will read background material on a number of current, hot-button issues, including (but not limited to) public health, campus speech, climate change, race, gender, reproductive rights, and immigration. We will develop research questions for a collaborative interview project on these topics. As a class, we will design a semi-structured interview guide, learn interview techniques and IRB protocols. Each student will conduct at least five semi-structured, 60-minute interviews. Students will learn how to use Dedoose (a qualitative data analysis software program) to manually code interviews. Each student will be responsible for reading through all data and coding their own transcripts, using a code book the class develops together. The final assignment will be to write a 15-page paper on a subject of each student's choosing, using whichever coded excerpts they wish to, but drawing on all interviews in the sample.