https://at-ceu.studyguide.timeedit.net/modules/GENS5049?type=COREThis autumn course transforms your thesis research process by providing hands-on training in advanced interviewing techniques that will generate rich empirical material directly applicable to your graduate research. Rather than theoretical exercises, you'll develop practical expertise in biographical methods, oral history approaches, and cutting-edge digital tools, including transcription software and NVIVO qualitative analysis programs-skills that will distinguish your thesis work and prepare you for professional research careers. By course completion, you'll have drafted your thesis methodology chapter while mastering an interdisciplinary toolkit for analyzing the complex interplay of text, conversation, visual materials, and embodied communication that reveals the deeper social dynamics underlying your research questions.