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When registering for courses, please be aware of the potential conflicts between courses or exam dates on courses. The planning of course activities at Roskilde University is based on the recommended study programs which do not overlap. However, if you choose optional courses and/or study plans that goes beyond the recommended study programs, an overlap of lectures or exam dates may occur depending on which courses you choose.

Knowledge of basic social science methodologies and methods is a requirement for taking the course for example as presented in: Bryman, A. (2016) Social Research Methods. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

This course is not open for students who have taken Document Analysis on the 5th semester of their bachelor's.

Knowledge

• Knowledge of academic and/or scientifically-based, practice-oriented methods, their use and relevance at advanced level.
• Understanding of and critical reflection on academic and/or scientifically-based, practice-oriented methods of social science research and their application in the future professions of students, such as in teaching, project management, consultancy, business management or research.

Skills

• Skills to carry out surveys and analyses using academic and/or scientifically-based, practice-oriented methods.
• Skills to evaluate and select methods in research and professional practice.
• Skills in communicating and discussing academic and/or scientifically-based, practice-oriented studies in a linguistic form that is correct, clear, technically precise, well-structured and well-argued.

Competencies

• Competency to co-operate with colleagues in applying various academic and/or scientifically-based, practice-oriented methods and forms of analysis to relevant issues in research and professional contexts.
• Competency to reflect on one’s own learning and responsibility for academic development.

• Research-related and professional premises for academic and scientifically-based, practice-oriented analyses.
• Procedures for the use of academic and/or scientifically-based, practice-oriented tools in research-related and professional contexts, respectively.

Politics can be understood as a struggle over influence with words rather than physical force. Different actors use documents for the purposes such as regulation, to underpin their actions, to demand documentation for claims made in the public debate or for decisions made by public authorities. As a result, documents are produced by international organisations, public authorities, political parties, interest groups, NGOs, private companies, media, think tanks, citizens and other actors.

Document analysis is already a commonly applied approach in the social sciences. Many theories, including theories of institutional change, decision-making, and discourse typically include documents as sources. Likewise, a number of research methods including content analysis, grounded theory, argumentation analysis, and the analysis of ideas also rely on documents. Finally, a range of different types of documents including laws, reports, newspaper articles and communications are available through the Internet and elsewhere. With increased digitalisation, skills in collecting and analysing documents in a reliable manner is like to be in increasing demand in the future.

The course develops students’ knowledge of and skills in applying quantitative and qualitative methods to analyse documents. The course focuses particularly on how computer-assisted document analysis, regardless of whether it is qualitative or quantitative, can provide a basis for transparent, structured, and well-presented document analysis. To this end, the course considers the selection and sampling of documents, different approaches to coding and analyzing documents as well as different ways of presenting document analysis in research and student reports.

In the course we will use the software program NVivo, which is available on RUCs intranet. Prior knowledge of NVivo or similar software is not a requirement for taking the course. Knowledge of basic social science methodologies and methods is a requirement for taking the course.

• Knowledge of different methods for analyzing documents, including with the aid of computer software.
• Competencies to systematically carry out document analysis to address theoretical and practical problems in the social science.
• Skills in applying quantitative and qualitative document analysis, and in the use of computer software to collect, query, and present analyses of documents.

The course consists of presentations by the lecturers combined with student exercises, discussions and presentations. Students are encouraged to work with topics and research questions, which they currently explore or are planning to work with in their student projects.

Reading of course literature and preparation for course lectures - 70 hours Attending lectures - 20 hours Student exercises and preparation of presentations - 15 hours Exam - 30 hours Total - 135 hours

Course textbook: Bazeley, Pat and Jackson, Kristi (2013): Qualitative data analysis with Nvivo. 2. ed. Los Angeles, CA : SAGE.

The examination consists of an individual, written methodology assignment that discusses and problematises various possible methodological approaches. The assignment is set by the course teacher no later than the fifth course session.

The assignment must be submitted no later than one week after the end of the course. The maximum length of the assignment is 26,400 characters, including spaces. The size specifications include the cover, table of contents, bibliography, figures and other illustrations, but exclude any appendices. Assignments that fail to meet the size specifications will be refused assessment, and one examination attempt will be deemed to have been used up.

Re-examination: Re-examination follows the same rules as the ordinary examination. The student is given fourteen days to complete the assignment.

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There will be an opportunity to get oral feedback on the exercises and discussions in class. Participants can expect to have collective feedback on the written exams (as a whole), as well as the opportunity for oral feedback in person for the individual written exams.