In offering this course the University of Nairobi instills sufficient knowledge on: how to design and execute data collection; how to analyze qualitative data; how to identify among the given research problems and objectives which ones require qualitative methods of data collection and data analysis; how to synchronize the two approaches (qualitative and quantitative) from the planning stage to data collection and data analysis; how to cut down time elements in data collection, usually very long in some of these techniques used in qualitative methodology; and theoretical, philosophical and scientific basis or rationales of the validity of qualitative methodology.