Introduction
Designing and conducting interviews are skills that are useful not just for social researchers but across a range of sectors and roles. This course gives a quick introduction to the method and practical hands on experience in designing and conducting interviews.
The course is part of:
- Graduate Certificate in Health and Ageing
- FlexiMasters in Health and Ageing
- Graduate Certificate in Social Sciences
- FlexiMasters in Social Sciences
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Objectives
Assessment
To meet the requirement of SkillsFuture Singapore, assessment(s) will be conducted during every course. The assessment(s) include:
- Class Participation
- Assignments
- Presentation
Who should attend
Fees and Funding
Standard Course Fee: S$1090.00
SSG Funding Support | Course fee | Course fee payable after SSG funding, if eligible under various schemes | |
BEFORE funding & GST | AFTER funding & 9% GST | ||
Singapore Citizens (SCs) and Permanent Residents (PRs) (Up to 70% funding) | S$1,000 | S$327 | |
Enhanced Training Support for SMEs (ETSS) | S$127 | ||
SCs aged ≥ 40 years old | |||
- Standard course fee is inclusive of GST.
- NTU/NIE alumni may utilise their $1,600 Alumni Course Credits. Click here for more information.
Trainers
Assoc Prof Laavanya Kathiravelu
Laavanya Kathiravelu is an Associate Professor at Sociology, School of Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. Her research and teaching interests lie in the intersections between migration & citizenship, urban studies, and race and ethnicity. Her first book is ‘Migrant Dubai: low wage workers and the construction of a Global City’ (Palgrave Macmillian 2016). She has also published in the ‘Journal of Intercultural Studies’ and ‘Urban Studies’, ‘Current Sociology’ and ‘Ethnic and Racial Studies’ as well as numerous book chapters. She was Fung Global Fellow at Princeton University between 2015-2016 and prior to joining NTU, was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity. In 2022, she was a Fulbright fellow at the City University of New York (CUNY).
Recommended Add-Ons
| COURSE TITLE | ACADEMIC UNIT |
| CET125 Perspectives on Ageing | 1.5 |
| CET126 Ageing and Public Policy | 1.5 |
| CET127 Ageing and the End of Life | 1.5 |
| CET128 Mental Health and Ageing | 1.5 |
| CET129 Counselling Older Persons | 1.5 |
| CET130 Traditional Chinese Medicine for Older Adults | 1.5 |
| CET131 Research Methods for Ageing | 1.5 |
| CET133 Work, Stress, and Health | 1 |
| CET134 Religion and Public Health* | 1 |
| CET135 Communicating Complexity Part 1: Tackling communication barriers | 1 |
| CET136 Communicating Complexity Part 2: Data Visualization | 1 |
| CET137 Communicating Complexity Part 3: Communicating for different audiences | 1 |
| CET138 Big Data and Computational Social Science | 1 |
| CET140 Applied Research Methods in Social Sciences | 1 |
FlexiMasters in Social Sciences
| COURSE TITLE | ACADEMIC UNIT |
| CET133 Work, Stress, and Health | 1 |
| CET134 Religion and Public Health* | 1 |
| CET135 Communicating Complexity Part 1: Tackling communication barriers | 1 |
| CET136 Communicating Complexity Part 2: Data Visualization | 1 |
| CET137 Communicating Complexity Part 3: Communicating for different audiences | 1 |
| CET138 Big Data and Computational Social Science | 1 |
| CET140 Applied Research Methods in Social Sciences | 1 |
| CET141 Social Psychology | 1 |
| CET142 Hip-Hop and Islam: A Sociology of Generations Perspective* | 1 |
| CET144 Governing Social Resilience | 1 |
| CET145 Singapore in the International System | 1 |
| CET146 Crisis Diplomacy | 1 |
| CET148 The Psychology of Everyday Design | 1 |
| CET149 Intergroup processes and social inequality | 1 |
- Credit-bearing and stackable to Graduate Certificate in Health and Ageing (9 AU), FlexiMasters in Health and Ageing (15 AU), Graduate Certificate in Social Sciences (9 AU) and FlexiMasters in Social Sciences (15 AU).
- SSG funded and SkillsFuture Credit approved
- *SFC funded only
