The following information came from current PhD students who were asked to complete a survey about their recommendations for coursework:

ResEv 580

• To fulfill the qualitative methods requirement, this is a great summer course — short and easy, but If you want to be a qualitative researcher, this course would be better in the fall or spring semester.
• The summer course is short and thus the assignments are truncated. So, you learn a lot, but the hands-on practice is reduced significantly with regard to coding, analyzing data, writing up results, etc

HDFS504 QLTVE RESRCH METHDS

Overall it was good experience.