Lecture topics:

1. Qualitative research and its specifics
2. Design of Qualitative Research
3. Biographical and narrative research
4. Memory in interdisciplinary perspective
5. Collective Memory and Identity: key concepts
6. Fieldwork and interview
7. Ethical aspects of qualitative research
8. Analysis and interpretation of the interviews
9. Grounded theory
10. Discourse Analysis
11. Methodology of diploma thesis
12. Final test (key terms from qualitative research)

Course form:

Recommended Reading based on individual consultations with the teacher. The lectures take place only with a minimum number of five students.

Basic recommended literature:

CORBIN, J. - STRAUSS, A.: Basics of qualitative research: Techniques and procedures for developing grounded theory. Thousand Oaks : Sage, 4th ed., 2015.
DENZIN, N. K .: Interpretive Biography. Newbury Park, London, New Delhi: Sage, 1989
DENZIN, N. K. - LINCOLN, Y. S. (ed.): Strategies of qualitative inquiry. Thousand Oaks: Sage, 4th ed., 2013
FLICK, U. - KARDOFF, E. - STEINKE, I .: Qualitative Forschung: ein Handbuch. Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, 2010.
KVALE, S .: Interviews: An Introduction to Qualitative Research Interviewing. Sage Publications, 1996.
MASON, J .: Qualitative Researching. Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2002.
RADSTONE, S. (ed.) Memory and Methodology. Oxford: Berg, 2000.
RITCHIE, D.: Doing Oral History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 3rd ed., 2014.
SILVERMAN, D .: Interpreting Qualitative Data. London: Sage, 5th ed., 2015.

Final exam: Essay (10 pages) on one of the following topics:

Individual and collective memory in oral history interview
Truth and method of its verification in narrative sources
The issue of shared authority in oral history
The role of interdisciplinarity in the interpretation of narrative sources
Fieldwork and ethics in oral history research
New media and oral history interviews: possibilities and limitations of archiving in digital age
Oral history fieldwork in time of crisis (pandemic covid-19, civil war, natural disasters, migration crisis etc.)

Note: The course is designed only for students of Oral History - Contemporary History study program in English language.