PUB PLC 205Qualitative Methods for Policy Analysis
Public Policy · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Introduction to use of qualitative methods in policy analysis. Students gain exposure to techniques of interviewing, participant observation/ethnography, comparative-case studies, and archival research. Consideration of research design matters including questions and situations for which qualitative methods are ideally suited, and how to use qualitative data when they are best available. Focus maintained on practical dimensions of qualitative methods in policy research including sampling and inferences, instrument design, directed inductive analysis, data gathering and coding under time pressure, and professional ethics.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Winter 2026
- Fall 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
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Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
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