This course aims to provide students with an orientation to the discipline and practice of qualitative research, especially qualitative data analysis as part of research methodology-related courses.  Topics include: the discipline and practice of qualitative research, qualitative research design, qualitative research characteristics, and objectives. The course will also offer the students with practice of choosing a qualitative research approach, formulating a good qualitative research question, collecting, analyzing, interpreting qualitative data, drawing a conclusion, and appraising a qualitative research report. A high proportion of course will be devoted to practices of analyzing and discussing qualitative data, especially those from observations, interviews, and documents.  Over the course scaffolding will be provided under the apprenticeship.