Since students are already clamoring for my FALL SYLLABUS, let me start a convo here. The grad course I'm teaching is Qualitative Methods: In-Depth Interviewing. Hit me with some of your favorite Sociology/Anthro/Social Work methods and interviewing pubs from the last 20 years..

EXTRA POINTS for methods scholarship by Black folks, indigenous folks and people of color. EXTRA EXTRA points for scholarship by Black women, indigenous women and women of color..

Also: For those who have already taken methodological courses on in-depth interviewing -- What topics/issues/dilemmas do you wish had been addressed that were not addressed?

For me, vicarious trauma was one of the big methodological topics that was NOT addressed in my own grad school training, so I made a conscious decision to integrate scholarship on this issue in my qualitative courses..

I feel that it is incredibly irresponsible of faculty to "teach" qual methods - or, even worse - actually exploit grad student labor that involves subjecting them to trauma - without addressing that trauma..