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This course introduces students to qualitative field methods and data generation practices for policy practitioners. The class first provides a basic grounding in core concepts related to ethics, reflexivity/positionality, and research siting/casing. It then introduces students to basic data generation methods including interviewing, taking field notes, ethnographic methods, participatory methods such as community mapping, qualitative approaches to social network analysis, and data analysis. Instruction covers positivist, interpretivist, and critical approaches.