The objective of this course is to enable students to gain a basic fluency with qualitative research methods, and understand the importance of formative methods with data from key informant surveys, focus groups or face-to-face interviews. Students learn how to ask open-ended questions and how concepts, categories and themes are developed using grounded theory. They learn how to analyze qualitative data. By the end of the course, students are able to conduct qualitative interviews using a script and use open coding to identify concepts, categories and themes.